If You'd Invested $10,000 in the S&P 500 at the Absolute Top of the Dot-Com Bubble, Here's What You'd Have Today
What if you invested at the absolute worst moment in stock market history? The answer might surprise you.
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On March 24, 2000, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) closed at $1,527.46, the highest it had ever been. If you had picked that one day to put $10,000 into the U.S. stock market, you would have bought at the exact top of one of the biggest bubbles in modern history.
So how badly would this investment have wrecked you? Less terribly than you would think.
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