Welcome to the Weekly S&P500 #ChartStorm —a selection of 10 charts which I hand pick from around the web and post on Twitter.
These charts focus on the S&P 500 (US equities); and the various forces and factors that influence the outlook - with the aim of bringing insight and perspective.
1. Scintillating Stock Market Statistics: The market was up 6% last week. Historically, on average, subsequent returns were positive most of the time, and often materially so.
(albeit note the outliers/exceptions: 2008 financial crisis, 1974 inflation shock, early-2000’s dot-com bubble bursting, and 1980 when Fed Chair Volcker hiked the economy into recession to get inflation under control…)