Monday, April 1, 2013

"Best First Quarters For the S&P 500" (we just had one of them)

From Bespoke Investment Group:
With a gain of 10% in the first quarter, the S&P had its best first quarter to a year since, well, last year.  It was also the index's 13th 10%+ gain in the first quarter of a calendar year going back to 1928.  In the table below, we summarize the performance of the index in each of those years from April through year end, as well as for the entire year....MORE