Beautiful End-of-Week Market Rally Was Not Enough to Break Several Consecutive Weeks of Losses (Friday, March 14, 2025)

The U.S. stock markets gained significantly on Friday, March 14, 2025 with investors showing renewed confidence in all market sectors. These single-day gains were indeed a welcome relief as they reversed some, but not all, of the losses exhibited earlier in the week. We used our Market Index Performance analysis tool to examine the weekly percent (%) returns of the four major U.S. market indices since the start of 2025 (Figures 1-4).

Looking at Figures 1-4, it is hard not to notice four (4) weeks of consecutive losses for the S&P 500 index, Nasdaq Composite index, and Russell 2000 index. Dow Jones Industrial Average has had two (2) weeks of consecutive losses. These weeks-long consecutive losses have led to significant declines in market value: -7.8 % for S&P 500 index, -5.4% for Dow Jones Industrial Average, -11.3% for Nasdaq Composite index, and -10.3% for Russell 2000 index.

**Figure 1.** Weekly percent (%) returns of the S&P 500 index from the start of 2025 to 3/14/2025. Four consecutive weeks of losses are seen resulting in a cumulative loss of 7.8% over four weeks. See this analysis tool.

**Figure 2.** Weekly percent (%) returns of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from the start of 2025 to 3/14/2025. Two consecutive weeks of losses are seen resulting in a cumulative loss of 5.4% over two weeks. See this analysis tool.

**Figure 3.** Weekly percent (%) returns of the Nasdaq Composite index from the start of 2025 to 3/14/2025. Two consecutive weeks of losses are seen resulting in a cumulative loss of 11.3% over four weeks. See this analysis tool.

**Figure 4.** Weekly percent (%) returns of the Russell 2000 index from the start of 2025 to 3/14/2025. Two consecutive weeks of losses are seen resulting in a cumulative loss of 10.3% over four weeks. See this analysis tool.

Earlier this week, we likened the 2025 year-to-date market losses to those that occurred in 2022, a year that had negative returns for all four U.S. major market indices. Indeed, to see consecutive market losses of similar magnitudes, we need to extend our analysis back to September 2022. As a representative example, we show the result of our analysis for the S&P 500 index in Figure 5. Feel free to use our Consecutive Gains and Losses in Market History analysis tool to note similar observations for other market indices.

**Figure 5.** Consecutive losses by week for the S&P 500 from 1/1/2022 to 3/14/2025. See this analysis tool.

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Friday, March 14, 2025