Retail investors played a significant role in the stock market’s overall performance during the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic. Former TD Ameritrade Chairman and CEO and Coastal Carolina University Executive Director of Football Joe Moglia told Yahoo Finance Live that retail investors are now witnessing the pitfalls of market volatility. Moglia noted that industrials, and specifically defense stocks within the industrial sector, are likely to perform well given the ongoing war in Ukraine. The Industrial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLI), an ETF which tracks returns for several of the biggest industrial sector stocks, has underperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the past month. The fund reached its lowest point since March 2021 on February 23, the day before Russia invaded Ukraine. . . .
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