Despite Recent Market Moves, '26 Has Been Calm

Here is a string of numbers for you: -2.6, 0.3, -0.3, -1.6, 1.8. These are the S&P 500’s daily price returns, in percent, from Friday June 5 through Thursday June 6, a week’s worth of trading days.[i] Given three of these five numbers are greater than 1% up or down, talk of volatility kicking off is increasingly commonplace, as if this spell is unusually wobbly. Sorry, but it isn’t. We crunched the numbers and made some charts to help illustrate that 2026 is a pretty calm year overall. Read Full Article »