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Sell in May?

May 08, 2017
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Investors are hoping the old Wall Street cliché “sell in May and go away” won’t apply this year. In fact, the DOW, S&P 500, and NASDAQ have not fallen in the month of May since 2012.*
-MarketWatch, April 26, 2017

*The Dow Jones Industrial Average, published by Dow Jones & Company, is an unmanaged average of 30 actively traded stocks and assumes reinvestment of dividends. It is not possible to invest directly in an index. Standard&Poor's 500® consists of 500 US stocks chosen for market size, liquidity, and industry group representation.  It is a market-value weighted index, with each stock's weight in the index proportionate to market value. It is not possible to invest directly in an index. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.