The past nine and a half years have been nothing short of incredible for investors. The broad-based S&P 500, which is arguably the best gauge of U.S. stock market and economic health, has surged 334% since hitting its low during the Great Recession. For those of you keeping score at home, that's an annualized annual return of better than
What you may also be overlooking is the inevitability that another recession is coming. Despite the Federal Reserve influencing monetary policy and the federal government using fiscal policy, such as the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, in an attempt to stimulate the economy, neither the nation's central bank nor Capitol Hill can prevent recessions from occurring.
Though it's impossible to predict when a recession will occur, how long it'll last, or how steep the decline will be, what we do know is that some of the telltale signs of trouble are beginning to show themselves.
The past nine and a half years have been nothing short of incredible for investors. The broad-based S&P 500, which is arguably the best gauge of U.S. stock market and economic health, has surged 334% since hitting its low during the Great Recession. For those of you keeping score at home, that's an annualized annual return of better than 16%.
But as the adage goes: Nothing goes up in a straight line.
Since 1950, the S&P 500 has undergone 36 separate corrections whereby the value of the index, which is comprised of 500 large, well-known, and often multinational companies, declined by at least 10%. This works out to a correction occurring, on average, about once every two years. So, you see, downside in the stock market is more common than you probably realize.k
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