Light Posting this Week

I’m taking a little time off this week to enjoy summer. I’ll still post but it will be lighter than normal.

I thought Lu Wang at Bloomberg had an interesting article on the persistence of buying the dips. Here are some choice nuggets:

Declines in the benchmark gauge for American equity are lasting an average of 1.5 days in 2014, the shortest since at least 2009, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Starting last year, returns on days after the index fell have averaged 0.13 percent, the highest since they were 0.38 percent in 2009.

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Losing streaks in the U.S. equity market are getting shorter. The S&P 500 has posted no declines that lasted more than three days in 2014, compared with an average of nine a year since March 2009, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

Drops this quarter have lasted 1.2 days, down from 1.5 days in the previous three months and about half the length in 2012. The number of losses has stayed roughly the same as in the past. There have been 59 down days this year, compared with an average of 61 during the same time period since 2011.

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About $190 billion has been added to equity mutual funds and exchange-traded funds since the start of 2013, data compiled by the Investment Company Institute and Bloomberg show. That’s a reversal from the five years through 2012, when $300 billion was withdrawn.

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The S&P 500 has gone without a 10 percent loss for 33 months, the third-longest stretch since 1990. On average, corrections have occurred every 18 months since 1946, according to a study by Sam Stovall, chief equity strategist at S&P Capital IQ.

Posted by on July 28th, 2014 at 11:18 pm


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