Shesa's OCTOBER Investment Blog
OCTOBER 2021 - INVESTMENT BLOG By Shesa Nayak U.S. Stock Market Commentary The seismic month of September is out of the door for investors. Last month, we saw all stock indexes DOW, S&P 500 and NASDAQ fell 4.3%, 4.8% and 5.3% respectively, suffering their worst month of this year. Historically, September is the miserable month for investors, but October happens to be a highly volatile month . During October, the volatility is 36% higher than the average of other 11 months of the year . When volatility is higher there are more pullbacks, corrections and bear markets that either start or end in the month. Reminding the investors, the Black Monday of October 1987 was the biggest crash of stock market history when the Dow plummet 22.6% in a single day. Having said that, October has been better than September as stock market has provided much better return (ROI) around 1% since 1980. But that’s t...
