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  Rising Interest Rates And Stock Performance
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  1. Today's blog post provides some historical perspective on how the S&P 500 Index has performed in calendar years when the yield on the benchmark 10-Year Treasury Note (T-Note) finished the year higher than where it began.
  2. From 1975-2014, there were 18 such years (see chart). The S&P 500 Index posted a positive total return in 15 of those 18 years.
  3. The yield on the 10-Year T-Note increased in excess of 100 basis points in 10 of the 18 years, with the most recent being 2013.
  4. Monitoring the yield on the 10-Year T-Note is commonplace for equity investors, in our opinion. The higher the yield trends the more competitive Treasuries become as an alternative investment opportunity to equities.
  5. Standard & Poor's (S&P) reported that, since 1953, U.S. stocks posted their best returns when the yield on the 10-year T-Note rose to around 4.0%, according to Businessweek. Its yield stood at 2.22% on 7/27/15.
This chart is for illustrative purposes only and not indicative of any actual investment. The illustration excludes the effects of taxes and brokerage commissions and other expenses incurred when investing. Investors cannot invest directly in an index. The S&P 500 Index is a capitalization-weighted index comprised of 500 stocks used to measure large-cap U.S. stock market performance.

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