Monday to Wednesday was a tease for market participants in that the S&P 500 narrowly missed out on an all-time closing high in every session. It finally got over the hump on Thursday and ended the week with a 0.4% gain. Price action was relatively tight-ranged throughout the week for the benchmark index.
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The stock market ended the first week of June on a higher note with the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq advancing a respective 0.7%, 0.6%, and 0.5%.
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The stock market had all-around good performance from the large-caps, mid-caps, small-caps, and even the micro-caps. Risk assets appeared to draw support from the calmness of the Treasury market, which staved off pestering inflation concerns and accompanying valuation concerns.
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This week featured a lot of churn and rotation between growth and value stocks, which made for a lackluster performance at the index level. The Nasdaq Composite (+0.3%) rose modestly, while the S&P 500 (-0.4%), Dow Jones Industrial Average (-0.5%), and Russell 2000 (-0.4%) ended with modest losses.
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Through the first three sessions of the week, the Dow was down 3.4%, the S&P 500 was down 4.0%, the Nasdaq was down 5.2%, and the Russell 2000 was down 6.0%. Over the next two days, the Dow gained 2.4%, the Nasdaq gained 3.0%, the S&P 500 gained 2.7%, and the Russell 2000 gained 4.2%.
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