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Annual Market Performance (2015)

January 10, 2016January 10, 2016 expectingalpha Investing Performance Histogram, VFINX

This is a bit of a variation on our customary annual chart. (We don’t usually go back earlier than 1940 when doing this)

But it’s an opportunity to update the JP Morgan/Bloomberg chart for 2013, 2014 and 2015 and help with some long-term perspective.

The annualized total return on the S&P 500 (VFINX) since January 8, 1980 is 10.1%.

Stock market annual price performance 20151231

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S&P 500 vs. Value Line Arithmetic Average

May 2, 2015 expectingalpha Investing $vle, VFINX, ^SPX

Check out the performance of the S&P 500 over the last six years versus the Value Line Arithmetic Average ($VLE).

I still remember Ralph Acampora’s warnings from the podium back in 2000-2001 with respect to S&P 500 index fund investing.  Anybody who listened may have skipped that “Lost Decade.”

It’s different this time (compared to the late 1990s).

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