April 2018 – 92 Years of US Stock Market Returns
The histogram shown below depicts the distribution of calendar year nominal returns for the U.S. stock market (represented by the total annual returns of the S&P 500 index) since 1926. Last year’s return of 21.8 percent was well above the median annual return of 14.0 percent. It marked nine consecutive calendar years of positive returns […]
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