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Here’s what stocks do in the months just before a rate hike
It seems increasingly clear that the Federal Reserve’s first rate hike since 2006 is now just months away, and that is making investors nervous. But should it? Stocks retreated Friday after a much stronger-than-expected rise in nonfarm U.S. payrolls in February. It was a case of good news being bad news for stocks. That isn’t an uncommon phenomenon on a day-today basis, but is the prospect of the start of a tightening cycle usually bad news for equities? Not so much, at least according to recent history. “Over the past six tightening periods since 1980, the S&P 500 SPX, -1.40% has returned 23.5% on average in ... (full story)
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