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Putting Market Losses in Perspective

Some important facts to put losses in the stock market into perspective. The average drawdown (loss) from peak-to-trough in a given year in the U.S. stock market going back to 1928 is: -16.3%. And you can see from the image below, about two-thirds of the time there has been a double-digit correction (-10 to -20%) at some point during the calendar year:   These averages are skewed a little higher because of all of the crashes throughout the 1930s, but … Continue reading

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