S&P 500 closes out worst month since start of pandemic

By Zach Halaschak

Published January 31, 2022 9:05pm ET

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S&P 500 closes out worst month since start of pandemic — The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 posted their first quarterly decline since President Trump took office. | (Richard Drew/Associated Press)

The S&P 500 just ended its worst month since March 2020 as investors fret about coming interest rate hikes and uncertainty over the situation in Ukraine.

While the index closed up more than 1.8% on Monday, it still shed more than 5% of its volume during the turbulent month, which was also the S&P 500’s worst-performing January in more than a decade.

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