A disappointing December is now in the books for U.S. stocks. "Disappointing" because the S&P 500 usually rises in the final month of the year; over the past two decades, the benchmark U.S. index posted an average return of 1.5 percent in December, according to EquityClock.com.
That trend did not hold up in 2015, as the S&P 500 lost 1.4 percent in the final month of the year. Now January is here— a month with a reputation for being good to stocks, though that bullishness could be overstated. Over the past 20 years, the S&P 500's average January return is just 0.2 percent, according to EquityClock data.
Investors willing to get tactical with sector exchange-traded funds could find larger rewards in the first month of 2016, and those rewards could come courtesy of some familiar ETFs. Among State Street's nine sector SPDR ETFs, the historical leader in January is the Health Care SPDR (ETF) ...
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