By Park-Elm|
2024-09-03T16:01:47+00:00
September 3rd, 2024|General, Markets, Volatility|
- Thanks to optimism surrounding a soft landing and encouraging inflation results, U.S. large-cap equities managed to recover from the trouncing of stocks at the start of the month to finish August with a gain. The S&P 500® was up 2% in August, outpacing the S&P MidCap 400® and the S&P SmallCap 600®.
- Consumer Staples and Real Estate led among large-cap sectors. Meanwhile, Energy and Consumer Discretionary were the laggards, a potential signal of risk-off sentiment carrying over from the global tumult earlier in the month.
- In another sign of defense, low volatility and low volatility high dividend strategies led among our reported factor indices.
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