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Get Market Updates and insights from experts at Edward Jones covering last week's performance.
The stock market's six-week streak of gains was interrupted last week, as rising bond yields started to attract investors' attention. Just over a month has passed since the Fed kicked off a new easing cycle, cutting its policy rate by a larger-than-typical half a percentage point.
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Get Market Updates and insights from experts at Edward Jones covering last week's performance.
Three-Peat in the Making? Can the Market Keep Winning? Key Takeaways. The stock market continues its impressive performance in 2024, which if maintained, would give it a second consecutive year with a return above 20%, something that has occurred in only five periods over the last 75 years.
While the S&P 500 is up over 20% year to date through September, in the third quarter, stock market leadership rotated. Interest rate-sensitive and cyclical sectors such as utilities, real estate and industrials all outperformed, while technology and communications services underperformed.
Equities and bonds fell into a bear market in 2022 as the Fed began hiking interest rates to fight four-decade-high inflation. 2023 brought periods of sharply rising and falling interest rates, with stocks staging a solid rebound. We think 2024 will bring the next phase of the cycle.
Three recent significant developments pose implications for the investment outlook: 1. The election is approaching; 2. the Fed has started cutting rates; and 3. the stock market is up sharply for the second year in a row.
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Despite the temptation to tie market outcomes to election results, stocks have performed well under both Republican (R) and Democratic (D) presidents. The strongest returns occurred during the F. Roosevelt (D), Clinton (D), Eisenhower (R) and Reagan (R) presidencies.