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The summer days are heating up, but oil and natural gas investors have been left out in the cold so far in 2017. With persistent supply gluts weighing on prices, traders are trying to figure out whether oil or gas (or neither) makes for the better trade during the summer months. So far in 2017, the...

For all the talk about selling in May and going away, May 2017 proved to be a good month for U.S. stocks as the S&P 500 gained about 1.2 percent. June is here, which could bring some retrenchment for stocks if the sixth month of the year holds true to historical form. Over the past 20 years,...

March is here, and if the third month of the year holds true to historical form, that is good news for those bullish on U.S. stocks. Over the past 20 years, the S&P 500 posts an average March gain of 1.8 percent, ranking the month third behind April and October in terms of average monthly...

After a surprisingly strong June, investors now turn their attention to the start of July and the third quarter. For all the talk about the summer months being unkind to stocks, July defies that conventional wisdom. Over the past two decades, the S&P 500 has notched an average July gain of 0.3...