Halftime Report
Here's how some notable performers did in the first half of 2022:
Best-performing sector – Energy +37.7%
Worst-performing sector – Consumer Discretionary -11.5%
Best-performing S&P 500 stock – Occidental Petroleum +103.1%
Worst-performing S&P 500 stock – Netflix -71.0%
Best-performing DJIA stock – Chevron +23.4%
Worst-performing DJIA stock – Walt Disney -39.1%
Best-performing market worldwide – Chile +4.9% (in USD)
Worst-performing market worldwide – Russia -41.8% (in USD)
Best-performing commodity – Kerosene (jet fuel) +91.3%
Worst-performing commodity – Hot-Rolled Coil Steel -34.2%
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index -10.7%
10-Year Treasury Yield +1.477 percentage points
CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) +73.5%
Gold -1.3%
WTI Oil +40.6%
U.S. Dollar +9.2%
Bitcoin -60.3%
S&P 500 has been down -15% or more in a single quarter 9 times since 1940:
September 1946
June 1962
June 1970
September 1974
December 1987
September 2002
December 2008
March 2020
June 2022
It was negative in the next quarter 1 time in 2008.