bad luck
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“Bad years for the S&P 500 are due to very specific factors, not just bad luck or arbitrary changes in investor sentiment,” said Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek, in commentary shared with MarketWatch on Tuesday.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026
"If they do, they finish the ride then go to the back of their car and spit three times to dispel the bad luck," he says.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
Some of it he chalks up to bad luck.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026
Unlike the classic movie, though, Wall Street has no angels to help those who, like the film’s hero, George Bailey, have lost their way through bad luck or faulty decisions.
From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025
And if anything made Grandmother unreasonable, it was bad luck.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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