September 4, 2022
Stock market In August, the US stock market stumbled to the finish line with a four-day selloff. For the month, Wall Street’s major indexes performed as follows: The Dow -3.9% S&P 500 -4.2% Nasdaq -4.6% Year-to-date (as of the conclusion of August 31st), the stock market’s benchmark indexes have performed as follows: The Dow -13.29% S&P 500 -17.02% The Nasdaq -24.47% The best and worst-performing stocks in August Despite a mid-month rally, the stock market lost ground by the end of August, with the S&P 500 posting negative 4.2% growth. For the month, these were the top 5 best-performing […]
February 4, 2022
Stocks In January 2022, the stock market saw some of its biggest declines in almost two years and even brief movement into correction territory. For the month: The S&P 500 was down 5.3%. Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 3.3%. Nasdaq Composite down 8.9%. That was the S&P 500’s worst month since March of 2020 when it saw a 12.5% decline. It was also Nasdaq’s worst month since March 20202. However, while starting the month with a swoon, stocks rebounded in the final days and continued a healthy recovery in February. Index prices are still more than 90% recovered from their […]