Stock Market Funds Shake War Shock For Top Month Since

Mutual fund investors who tuned out unsettling war news in April were richly rewarded for staying the course. Buoyed by a U.S.-Iran ceasefire, surging computer chip stocks and the S&P 500’s biggest monthly gain in nearly six years, the average U.S. diversified stock fund posted a nearly 10% gain in April, according to Lipper Refinitiv data. The gargantuan rally put…