Dow climbs more than 200 points on the first trading day of May, retail stocks lead gains

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U.S. stocks climbed on Monday, the first trading day of May, as shares tied to the economic reopening continued to rise. The Dow rose 0.71%. The S&P 500 was up 0.27%. The Nasdaq fell 0.48%.

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Data going back to 1928 shows that the May-October period has the lowest average and median returns of any six-month period of the year with the S&P 500 up 66% of the time on an average return of 2.2%, according to Bank of America. "This is a small number of observations, but May-October has lackluster average and median returns after a November-April rally of at least 20%," Stephen Suttmeier, technical research strategist at Bank of America, said in a note.

 

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