These are the trailing total returns for the U.S. stock market1 over various time frames:
Year to date: +11%
One year: +30%
Five years: +94%
Ten years: +223%
Fifteen years: +679%
Not bad considering we’ve had two bear markets in the past four years.
If you put $10,000 into the U.S. stock market five years ago, your money has essentially doubled:
Now look at the returns by year:
2019: +31%
2020: +21%
2021: +26%
2022...