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Stocks’ Best Start to the Year Since 2019

Listen to a quick, 3-minute summary featuring the market and economic news over the past quarter.

Highlights include:

  • The S&P 500 Index rose 10.5%, had its best start to the year since 2019, and experienced 22 all-time closing highs in the first quarter of 2024.
  • Ten of the S&P 500’s 11 sectors rose in the first quarter. With continued enthusiasm over artificial intelligence developments, Communication Services and Information Technology were among the top-performing sectors.
  • The strong equity performance this year is set against positive macroeconomic trends including record high corporate profits, increasing consumer confidence, an accommodating Federal Reserve, and persistent low unemployment.
  • Historically since 1950, the S&P 500 has risen 8% or more in the first quarter only 16 times, and in all but 1 instance, stocks finished the year with a positive return.
  • Said differently, 94% of the time when the market rose 8% or more in the first quarter, stocks continued their climb for the rest of the year.

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Katharine E.W. Dudley, AIF®
Vice President, Client Advisor

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