Calendar Year: Rise and Equity Indices

calendar year: Commodities, while up year-to-date, on average remain below their September prices, according to Market Watch. Read Stock market at crossroads after strongest quarterly rise in a decade The S&P 500 SPX, 0.00% rose 13.1% in the first quarter, its strongest performance over the first three months of a calendar year since 1998 and its strongest quarterly rise overall since 2009. Comparing major equity indices, emerging markets were the only ones to fully recover the losses of the fourth quarter 2018, they said. performance exceeds the previous losses, too. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.30% posted an 11.2% rise over the same period, its strongest quarterly gain in six years. The S&P 500 ended Friday 3.3% below its all-time closing high of 2,930.75 set on Sept. 20. Stocks fell sharply in the final three months of 2018, with the S&P 500 logging a 14% quarterly fall. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.