S&P500 Edges Up After A Day of Ups and Downs

After a day of positive trading, the total gain was only .0048% — that is, 5/1000 of a percent.

For the record, only 449 trading days had positive closes of less than .05% — that is 5/100 of a percent; and 51 of these took place since January 2000.

As for closes in the red, but not in excess of -.05%, 43 occurred since 2000, and 383 since 1950.

Together, these closes in the range between -1/2 percent and + 1/2 percent, constitute 6.7 percent of trading days since 1950, and 4.9 percent since January 2000.

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