JUSA - Worst Annual Start On Record: Are Stocks And Bonds Going To Diverge?

• Beyond the broad S&P benchmark, 45% of NASDAQ 100 stocks are already off more than 50%, which only happened as part of the larger-than-historically-average bear markets of 2000-02 and 2008-09.
• The last eight times the S&P 500 was down in a calendar year, bonds finished the year up as higher interest rates slowed consumption and inflation.
• So far, the University of Michigan’s April consumer sentiment poll found the percentage of households still bullish on the stock market at a high 56.6%, and those bullish on bonds tied for an all-time low of just 3% (Rosenberg Research).

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