There’s still a week-and-a-half left in the month, but the markets are currently maintaining yet another month of gains. This month, the Dow Industrials is up 2.4%, the S&P 500 is up 2.3%, the Nasdaq Composite is up 1.3%, while the Russell 2000 is clinging to a 0.1% gain.
If these gains continue to hold at the end of next week, the Dow would have its 7th month of gains in the last 8 months. On the other hand, the S&P, Nasdaq, and Russell haven’t had a monthly decline since February and each is on pace to have its 8th straight month of gains.
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Such a streak is rare. The last time the S&P was up 8 months in a row was between June 2006 and January 2007. It’s more impressive for the Nasdaq & Russell though. The Nasdaq hasn’t had an 8-month winning streak since the tail end of its 10-month streak in 1995, while the 8-month winning streak will be the Russell’s first since its own 8-month streak 14 years ago.
Take a look at some of the best and worst movers so far this month (data as of close on October 21):
Top 5 Dow Industrials Components
- CAT up +13.77% for the month
- CVX up +9.29% for the month
- UTX up +7.34% for the month
- XOM up +6.85% for the month
- DIS up +6.45% for the month
Bottom 5 Dow Industrials Components
- TRV down -2.46% for the month
- T down -3.96% for the month
- VZ down -4.10% for the month
- GE down -5.42% for the month
- BA down -6.50% for the month
Top 5 S&P 500 Components
- LXK up +29.39% for the month
- HOG up +23.22% for the month
- SLM up +23.17% for the month
- MCO up +22.73% for the month
- BTU up +20.61% for the month
Bottom 5 S&P 500 Components
- IPG down -17.95% for the month
- BSX down -22.47% for the month
- MI down -25.53% for the month
- PCS down -29.59% for the month
- MBI down -33.63% for the month
Top 5 Nasdaq 100 Components
- ADSK up +13.15% for the month
- JOYG up +12.89% for the month
- GOOG up +11.14% for the month
- AAPL up +10.56% for the month
- CERN up +9.35% for the month
Bottom 5 Nasdaq 100 Components
- GENZ down -9.34% for the month
- CMCSA down -10.49% for the month
- NVDA down -10.98% for the month
- WYNN down -12.15% for the month
- VRTX down -13.19% for the month
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