Will the S&P 500 close below 575 during 2009?

betting the move will foreshadow a second-half recovery. But small-caps are some of the riskiest assets in the stock market and have also historically traded weakly when volatility was high, as it remains now. As such, volatility must begin to subside to

much, to be sure. On May 5, the S&P index of 500 stocksa good gauge of the broad stock market,closed at 903.80, just 0.55 points above its close on the last day of trading in 2008. Still, market participants were marveling that the stock market could

of the New York Stock Exchange at the post that handles Citigroup Monday, May 4, 2009. [Agencies] The S&P 500, considered Wall Street's most important indicator, bounded up 3.4 percent Monday and erased the last of its losses for 2009. And the Dow Jones

By Yana Tulchinskaya / OTKRITIE Investment BankThe shares of the Russian Utilities sector in April have significantly outperformed the entire Russian stock market and the World's indices. The MICEX Power index, which captures the performance of the

and the construction industry. And jitters about a swine-flu pandemic seemed to be easing. At the close, the Dow Jones industrial average was up about 214 points, according to preliminary figures. The S.&P. 500 was up 3.4 percent, at about 907 points,