Fox's Will Cain tells audience “what's happened on Wall Street doesn't necessarily hurt you”
Cain: “Always worth understanding the big picture and not the panic”
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From the April 7, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Will Cain Show
WILL CAIN (HOST): Now, it is worth as well looking for a bigger picture when it comes to markets. If panic is all we can see in front of our face, a plan is what we can see when we look at a bigger picture. Here's what happens in markets when they have bad days. There have been bear markets in our past. The S&P 500 has looked at an average of the recovery over their bear markets. When you have a bad day, when you might hit a recession, and the average recovery time before one of these is 18.9 months.
It's also worth saying how bad has this day been? How bad was it Friday? How bad was it Thursday? Well the S&P 500 over the last five years -- if you'd invested your money starting five years ago -- is up 91%. If you had invested your money simply in the last five months, I heard earlier today said on CNBC, then you might be in a bit of trouble. But most people don't invest for one, two, three, or five months. And unless you need to pull your 401k out today, what's happened on Wall Street doesn't necessarily hurt you, as long as you're in for the big picture. The plan.
Now let's take a look at the Dow since 2020 and what it's looked like over time. You can see where we are today and you can see where the panic is. The last little blip at the edge of that screen. It's always worth understanding the big picture and not the panic.