We’re coming off a year when the S&P 500 climbed 13.4% excluding the impact of dividends and heading first into the belly of the beast that is corporate earnings for the recently completed 4Q 2012. Yet despite those favorable figures for the S&P 500 as well as those for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite Index, trading volumes fell significantly in 2012. That drop is not new and has had dire consequences for a number of firms over the last few years. As move into 2013, it looks like that trend is set to continue.
We’re coming off a year when the S&P 500 climbed 13.4% excluding the impact of dividends and heading first into the belly of the beast that is corporate earnings for the recently completed 4Q 2012. Yet despite those favorable figures for the S&P 500 as well as those for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite Index, trading volumes fell significantly in 2012. That drop is not new and has had dire consequences for a number of firms over the last few years. As move into 2013, it looks like that trend is set to continue.
