Has it become fundamentally wrong to invest in the stock market?
(Over a decade of negative growth with the most accurate forecasters claiming there is no light ahead. Have stocks proven to be an inherent bad financial investment? Do experts agree that this type of investment doesn’t have a long term positive expected value?
Noe that I’m talking in aggregation, not about individual stocks.)
Answer:
You should do the math yourself instead of listening to whoever you are listening to!
If you had invested $10,000 split equally among the Dow components on this date twenty years ago and held it through today, you’d be up 258.77% (an average annual return of 12.9%) PLUS you would have earned close to an additional $10,000 over that time in dividends.
NO other investment will ever do that sustainably!
Posted: August 9th, 2010 under US Stock Market.
Tags: invest in the stock market