7-year bull makes investors $16T richer!

[Crabtownboy]

The bull market celebrates its seventh birthday today. Here's the real accomplishment, though: Putting $16 trillion into the pockets of investors.

Investors with the guts to ride this bull market since it first emerged on March 9, 2009 have seen the value of stocks rise $16 trillion, according to market research firm Wilshire Associates. Just to put that into perspective - that's nearly equal to the U.S. gross domestic product of $17 trillion.

Much of those huge market gains were generated by a few runaway winners. Just seven mega-winners in the bull, digital gadget maker Apple (AAPL), online advertising company Alphabet (GOOGL) and software maker Microsoft (MSFT), together generated $2 trillion of the bull market's run, according to a USA TODAY analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

"Looking at the performance of individual stocks since (March 9, 2009), there have been some monster gains," according to a report to clients by Bespoke Investment Group.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money...ear-bull-makes-investors-16t-richer/81515958/

 

[InTheLight]

It's been a great ride, except for a couple of blips here and there. And the past 6 months have been terrible.

 

[Crabtownboy]

It's been a great ride, except for a couple of blips here and there. And the past 6 months have been terrible.

Yes, and that is why a person has to carefully the market and especially stock owned on a daily basis. You put your eggs in a basket and then you watch that basket very carefully.

 

[church mouse guy]

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