If a Bear Market Is Coming in 2026, History Says This 1 Investment Is the Safest Place to Park Your Money
It might not be a good choice over the long term.
Overview
We've been lucky over the past 17 years.
Since the subprime mortgage crisis bottomed out the stock market in March 2009, the U.S. stock market has experienced an unprecedented bull market streak, with only a handful of mostly brief bear market sessions.
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Next time, though, we might not be so lucky. It took the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) much longer to recover from the Great Recession and the dot-com bubble than from the COVID-19 crash or the 2022 bear market. The next bear market could be a rough one.
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Originally published at www.fool.com.
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