Nervous About the Stock Market? History Has Encouraging News for Long-Term Investors.
Over the past 100 years, the stock market has an average annualized return of 11%.
Overview
Things have been going pretty well on the stock market as the bull market approaches four years this October. That's why a lot of people are rightly nervous.
All good things come to an end, especially when a valuation gauge like the Shiller P/E ratio is at its highest level since the dot-com boom, which soon thereafter went bust.
Details
That's not to say a bear market is right around the corner or that a market collapse is imminent. All markets are different, and there are some key differences between this one and the nearly two-year bear market that followed the dot-com boom.
Source
Originally published at www.fool.com.
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