The S&P 500 is no longer represents the true state of the US economy. The current bull market in tech stocks has further pushed the concentration levels in the index. A few weeks ago an article in The Financial Post noted that the concentration level in the S&P 500 exceeds the level reached in the …
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The 2020 US Presidential election is scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2020. Americans will get to elect primarily between the candidates of two parties – the Democrats and Republicans. As with the past election nobody knows who will win. With that note, I recently came across this interesting re-election Campaign Poster promoting Ronald Reagan for President and George H.W. …
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The stock market crash of 1929 triggered the The Great Depression in the U.S. Below is a short video on the crash and its consequences. Source: Documentary Channel on You Tube
The historical annual returns of Canada’s benchmark S&P/TSX Composite index from 1924 to 2019 are shown in the pyramid chart below. Canadian stocks yielded a positive return in about 73% of the time. So in the long run, stocks tend to offer positive returns despite crises such as the dot-com crash, financial crisis of 2008-09, etc. …
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