Some choose to base their analysis on data back to 1957, the year the S&P 500 SPX was created. For them, August appears to be a poor month. In a ranking of average monthly returns since then, it ...

Stocks are up on Wall Street following an early morning slump a day after the market's worst performance in a month. The S&P 500 is up 0.3%, or 17 points, as of 10:58 a.m. Eastern time on ...

None of this has stopped market analysts from torturing the data to make it say what they want. Some choose to base their analysis on data back to 1957, the year the S&P 500 SPX was created.

U.S. stocks finished August with monthly gains on Friday. The S&P 500 advanced 2.3% last month, while the Dow gained 1.8% and the Nasdaq rose 0.7% for the month, according to FactSet data. -Isabel ...

The Nasdaq Composite is down 3.2% this month, the worst performance in the first six trading days of a month since last December. August is the second worst month historically for the index ...

The EURO STOXX 50, Europe’s blue-chip benchmark, has averaged a 1.66% decline during the month over the past 30 years, making it the worst-performing month of the year.

The S&P 500 fell more than 4% last week, its worst start to September—historically a difficult month for stocks—since at least 1953. Markets have been shaken by concerns that the Federal ...