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Re:The Stock Market Is Shrinking by nostrademons on Sunday August 05, 2018 @12:43PM (#17692127)
Roughly 28% of the S&P500's 2017 advance was due to FAANG, and 40% due to tech in general:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-quarter-of-sp-500s-2017-...

Take them out and you're much closer to the historical 10% return, and that's in a bull market.

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Re:The Stock Market Is Shrinking by kgwgk on Sunday August 05, 2018 @12:49PM (#17692150)
Sure, that's one of the problems with the current market.

But if understand correctly, HashThis' claim is that the market is not even returning the historical 10% average.

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