April 25-29, 2022 Recap

The Dow Industrials and S&P 500 ended fractionally lower last week amid intense volatility as investors assessed the economic growth impact of the Federal Reserve’s ½-point rate hike and policy outlook announced on Wednesday. Meanwhile, China’s two largest cities remain in lockdown yet another week, adding more complications to supply-chain disruptions already aggravated by Russia’s intensifying war in Ukraine. Despite the fractional setback, the S&P 500 capped a fifth weekly loss, its longest weekly losing streak in over a decade (since June 2011) and is off 13.6% from its record high set on the first trading day of the new year. For the Nasdaq Composite, which is down 24% from its record-setting peak almost six months ago on November 19, 2021, the bull market is over.

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