If Past Is Precedent

In light of equities' stellar YTD performance, and considering rampant speculation that a correction's not only inevitable, but imminent, it's worth asking what history tells us about rest-of-year returns when the S&P notches a Q1 gain of at least 10%. Put as a question: When was the last time the world's benchmark risk asset par excellence rose double-digits in Q1 only to fall during the rest of the year? The answer, as it turns out, is never. That's basically never happened, with the "ba