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January 2020 was fairly unstable for the worldwide markets with the month opening to Center East tensions and ending with the fast unfold of coronavirus, primarily in China. Simply in the course of the month, the markets had a pleasant spell owing to the signing of the phase-one U.S.-China commerce deal. However there was a massacre on the final day of January on rising concern about coronavirus and its antagonistic affect on the worldwide economic system.
Total, the S&P 500-based ETF SPY and the Dow Jones-based ETF DIA have misplaced about 1% and a couple of.1%, respectively up to now one month (as of Jan 31, 2020). The Nasdaq-100-based ETF QQQ superior about 1.4%. Nonetheless, rising market ETF EEM, China A-Shares ETF ASHR and Asia ETF AIA shed 6.2%, 10.9% and 5.8%, respectively (learn: Wining & Losing ETF Areas on Coronavirus Outbreak).
Is It an Ominous Signal for 2020?
There may be apparently a correlation between January’sperformance and full-year returns. In response to Inventory Dealer’s Almanac, “going again to 1950, when the S&P 500 was optimistic in January, 86% of the time, the total…