7/3/2024, 4:10:07 pm

The March effect: 3 reasons why markets tend to be weak in March

  Market movements may appear to be random in the short term, but there is a higher chance of markets delivering negative returns in the month of March than in any other month. If you look at monthly returns over the past 23 years, March saw negative returns 56 percent of the time, the highest of all months. This is not a random statistic.