stock market
What a year, what a decade for stocks!
U.S. stocks end down sharply; post big yearly gain – MarketWatch.
The first decade of the 21st century was a tumultuous one for the U.S. stock market. From the end of 1999 to the end of 2009 the major stock indexes had these results:
DJIA: -9.3%
S&P 500: -24.1%
NASDAQ: -44.2%
Not a good decade for buy and hold investors. [...]
