Rollercoaster Ride

It’s hard to imagine more of a rollercoaster ride for stocks than what we’ve experienced thus far in 2020. After declining by nearly 34% from its all-time high in February to its trough in late March (which included the market’s quickest ever move into a bear market), the S&P 500 has rallied ferociously over the last two-plus months. Over the last 50 trading sessions, the S&P has gained nearly 40% and now stands less than 8% from its all-time high.

According to data from LPL’s research team, the market’s rally of the last 50 days ranks as the best such rally in the S&P’s history since 1957, surpassing the rallies from mid-to-late 1982 and early 2009 by a few percentage points. What’s more is that big, short-duration rallies in the past have generally led to continued strength in the following months, as is evidenced in the table below.

Of course, there’s no assurance that this year will follow a similar trajectory we’ve experienced in the past, for if nothing else, this year has clearly demonstrated that unprecedented things can and do happen with more frequency than many of us likely appreciate.

Sources:

Best 50-Day Rally Ever, LPL Research Blog. June 4, 2020.

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S&P 500: Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500 Index. The S&P 500 Index is an unmanaged, capitalization-weighted index designed to measure the performance of the broad U.S. economy through changes in the aggregate market value of 500 stocks representing all major industries.