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“Turnaround Tuesdays” are a thing — and we’re seeing one right now

Should you buy stocks the day after a big drop? The answer, in general, is maybe.

But statistically speaking, the odds are in tilted in your favor being long the stock market if that bad day happened to be a Monday.

The SPDR S&P 500 Trust (which tracks the benchmark US stock index) has tended to rise 1.2% on Tuesday following drops of at least 2% on Monday, according to Bespoke Investment Group. (SPY was up about 1.3% today as of the writing of this post.)

“There’s a reason the term ‘Turnaround Tuesday’ exists,” they write.

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Brent Donnelly, president of Spectra Markets, fine-tuned the parameters behind a Tuesday bounce and came up with similar results. When the S&P 500 has fallen on a Thursday, Friday, and then by at least 2% on the ending Monday, those Tuesday returns have averaged 1.6% (and been positive 21 of 31 times).

“This pattern works so well that long stocks on Tuesday in 2008 made money even as the S&P 500 dropped more than 50% that year,” he added.

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SpaceX gets a wave of bullish ratings from Wall Street analysts

SpaceX received more than a dozen positive analyst calls on Tuesday — including from major Wall Street banks — as they initiate coverage on Elon Musk’s space and AI company.

SpaceX went public on June 12 at a $2.2 trillion valuation, the largest debut in history. While the company hasn’t yet posted a profit, it seems to have convinced Wall Street that it will get there and grow its valuation on the way.

Of the at least 17 analysts that gave a rating on Tuesday, all but one gave it a “buy” or “outperform” rating. MoffettNathanson was "neutral."

The ratings come as SpaceX joined the Nasdaq 100 index, a benchmark tech-heavy basket of companies that underpins millions of portfolios. The inclusion adds built-in demand for the stock from index funds and ETFs.

Still, SpaceX fell more than 5% on Tuesday amid a broader sell-off, and is currently effectively flat from its opening price of $150 a share.

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