Big Days Dying Off in Stocks With No 2% Move Since December
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Days of frantic buying or selling have been absent from the U.S. stock market this year.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index hasn’t posted a gain or loss of 2 percent or more for 126 days, the longest streak since one ending in February 2007, according to data compiled by Bloomberg and Deutsche Bank AG. The last time the gauge went without a 2 percent move in the first half of the year was in 2005.