Weird day
Thanks to relatively poor action in small-cap stocks, breadth on the NYSE was tepid on Wednesday. Since at least 1962, never before had the S&P 500 gained more than 2% on a day with more volume flowing into declining securities than advancing ones on the NYSE. The previous biggest gain was 1.5% in November 2007. The bigger the gain, the worse the forward results were (mostly). The few precedents of large gains on negative volume are not encouraging, but we're placing little weight on this given the knee-jerk reactions to a still-developing event.

