MARCH: TURNING POINT?

摘要

March has been a pretty solid performing month for all the major stock market indexes. It has averaged gains of more than 1% in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 since 1950 (see "Vital March statistics," right). The worst March occurred in 1980 when the major indexes set a multi-year low that has not been breached since. Though most analysts set the beginning of the historic multi-de-cade bull market of the 1980s and 1990s to 1982, the low was set in 1980 despite a U.S. recession that followed in 1981-82.