Stocks post best annual gain in 6 years with the S&P 500 surging more than 28%

Re:Stocks post best annual gain in 6 years with the S&P 500 ... by vanniv on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @05:47PM (#21925319)

2016: +11.96%

2017: +21.83%

2018: -04.38%

2019: +32%

(All numbers are total return, the 2019 source didn't have fractions of a %)

That's not a bad four years' return.

(Yes, December 2018 had a big decline -- but the first 11 months of the year were pretty good, and we ended only 4.38% off even with the 21% decline in the last month)

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Re:Stocks post best annual gain in 6 years with the S&P 500 ... by perl4ever on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @07:32PM (#21925800)

What is the significance of four years? Personally, I prefer to talk about my three year return.

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Re:Stocks post best annual gain in 6 years with the S&P 500 ... by vanniv on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @02:19AM (#21927058)

I wasn't trying to make a special significance by looking back exactly four years -- I picked 2016 as a starting point because I felt that it gave enough context to show that the big drop in December 2018 was a little blip in what is actually a huge uptrend.

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Re:Stocks post best annual gain in 6 years with the S&P 500 ... by perl4ever on Thursday January 02, 2020 @08:54PM (#21942256)

If that was a little blip, then the uptrend clearly started in 2009.

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Re:Stocks post best annual gain in 6 years with the S&P 500 ... by 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @07:36PM (#21925809)

An election cycle.

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Re:Stocks post best annual gain in 6 years with the S&P 500 ... by perl4ever on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @08:03PM (#21925911)

There were elections at the end of 2015 and 2019? Now you tell me!

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Re:Stocks post best annual gain in 6 years with the S&P 500 ... by vanniv on Sunday January 05, 2020 @06:42PM (#21965107)

Oh, damn, I forgot to vote in them!

No wonder the world has gone to hell!

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