Stocks are increasing, Lifting stocks are starting to trade
Stocks rose and S & P 500 headed for its best three-month start of the year for more than two decades on Friday.
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U.S. The shares are on the right track to send their best first quarter to the year since the first quarter of 1998. The S & P 500 was up 12.3% from year to day through the market terminal on Thursday. The last time the index rose more percentage in the first three months of the year was in 1998, when S & P 500 was 13.53% in the first quarter.
Even after a strong start in 2019, the shares could still have
S & P 500's 7.9% rally in January was a full standard deviation over January's average return of 1.2% since 1958, Datatrek co-founder Jessica Rabe pointed out in a report. In the eight years ahead of 2019, when the S & P 500 returned more than one standard deviation above the average in January, the index averaged 2.2% in April and was positive for 60% of the years. And in May of these years, S & P 500 was on average 1.9% and was positive 75% of the time.
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