The past year has been positive but unspectacular for the markets, but one thing it surely has been is consistent. No matter what happens today, the S&P 500 is guaranteed to finish the year without ever being down for four consecutive trading days. That marks the first year in which that has happened since S&P began its indexes, dating back to the 1920s.
By contrast, there were 11 stretches in 2014 where the S&P increased in value for at least four consecutive days. But there were just six stretches where the index declined for three consecutive days - and each time, the fourth day was a positive.
The last time the S&P 500 fell for four straight days was in a stretch that ended on December 13, 2013. Let's hope 2015 brings us another year without any long losing streaks.
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