The month of April finished higher for the month but it wasn’t until April 24th, when the market finally decided to gap higher in a big way, did the S&P 500 break a profit for the month.
You might not have realized it, but March actually snapped a four month winning streak when the S&P 500 decided to close a whooping 0.92 points lower. In percentage terms that was -0.04% lower for the month.
Needless to say there was a lot of chop in the market and that has largely continued into April, but hey, I’m just here to talk about March, there will be a future post on April, once April is finished with itself.
The S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq and Russell Index finished higher than where they they all started the month at and compounded on the gains from January in terms of overall stock market returns.
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