Who would ever think that the Chicago Cubs baseball ball team would have anything to do with the stock market? However, when you look back, the team's performance really does appear to have signaled some major tops and bottoms in the stock market when the Cubs have made the playoffs. After all, isn’t a cub a baby bear?
Lets take a look at recent stock-market history when the Cubs made the Major League baseball playoffs.
Below are the years when the Chicago Cubs made the playoffs and the stock market's reaction:
- 2008 Chicago Cubs: Stock-market crash and bear market
- 2007 Chicago Cubs: Stock market top in October
- 2003 Chicago Cubs: Start of bull market from the top make in 2000
- 1989 Chicago Cubs: Nothing notable, but the Chicago Bulls basketball team made playoffs
- 1984 Chicago Cubs: Nothing notable,
- 1938 Chicago Cubs: Stock market finds low after the 1037 crash
- 1935 Chicago Cubs: Nothing notable
- 1932 Chicago Cubs: Stock-market low from the 1929 top
- 1929 Chicago Cubs: Stock-market top and start of the Great Depression
- 1918 Chicago Cubs: Nothing notable
- 1910 Chicago Cubs: Stock markets end sharply negative
- 1908 Chicago Cubs: Stocks rally all year long beginning in February
- 1907 Chicago Cubs: Markets crash, run on the Knickerbocker Trust
- 1906 Chicago Cubs: Nothing notable
It should be noted that not every year that the Chicago Cubs made the playoffs was a bad one for stocks. There have been times when it has been an end to the bearish action and the start of a new bull run. Unfortunately, the stock market this year has been trading at new all-time highs, so if the Cubs make the playoffs this year, it could be bad for the markets going forward. While this may just be a coincidence, it's interesting to note none the less.