2025 Q1 Portfolio Update: Decent 3.5% return YTD and beating the S&P 500
over a 51 months period
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There were some expectations that 2025 isn’t going to be a very good year
for equities. Little did we know that it is on course to be a…
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U.S. stocks closed higher on Tuesday after broadly slumping in the last two sessions. There was no obvious single reason behind massive losses seen stateside on Monday, but the sell-offs were blamed on concerns about rising interest rates, program trading and volatility funds that use leverage.
ReplyDeleteOn Tuesday, the Dow Jones industrial average closed higher by 567.02 points, or 2.33 percent, at 24,912.77 after falling as much as 567.01 points earlier in the session. Other indexes also recorded gains: The S&P 500 rose 1.74 percent to end at 2,695.14 and the Nasdaq composite advanced 2.13 percent to close at 7,115.88.
Dow plummets 1032 points, now down 10% from record; S&P 500 drops 3.7% to new low for week
ReplyDeleteThe Dow Jones industrial average closed more than 1,000 points lower.
The benchmark 10-year U.S. note yield rose to 2.88 percent before sliding to 2.851 percent Thursday.
A rise in yields and sharp moves in obscure volatility funds that use leverage have been cited by traders as reasons for the market's recent pullback and volatility spike.