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Investment Strategies: From Wall Street to Main Street Hingham MA

Stock Market Performance For the Year Indicated by The First 5 Trading Days

By Craig Hartnett Hingham MA

For the stock market, the first 5 trading days of a new year give solid insights to the performance for the coming year. For the last 41 times that the stock market increased for the first five day period, 35 times or 85.4 percent of the time, were followed by full-year gains. The average gain was 14 percent. The exceptions are 1994 and four years when there was war in both Vietnam and the Middle East.

This is meant to provide investment perspectives and is not a recommendation from Craig Hartnett to investors in Hingham MA and the South Shore community.

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