Stocks didn't do much of anything on Wednesday and are poised to fall today, based on morning market futures action. Volume has been low in the run-up to Friday's options expiration.

Let’s take a quick look back at what happened in the first quarter of this year among the components of the S&P 500 index. Here is how the various sectors performed, with tech on top and financials at the bottom.

Monday continued the downtrend for the major indices on Wall Street which concluded a second week of losses on Friday. As for an annual Santa rally, that seems nowhere to be found.

The Nasdaq-100 Index is composed of the 100 largest non-financial companies listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market. The reconstituted index (effective Dec. 19, 2022) has 6 new members, replacing such stalwarts as BIDU, SWKS DOCU and NTES.

Last week, AT&T spun off Warner Media. Now, I’ve recommended AT&T in my The Dividend Hunter service since November 2020. The dividends since then have been great.