Equities Lost Decade

Posted on Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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BusinessWeek with the details:

With the '00s about to flip the odometer to the '10s, there has been a raft of commentary about how lousy a decade this has been. Stock investors can vouch for that: The ten years since Y2K are on track to produce the worst total returns for investors since the 1930s. And, after the roaring '80s and '90s, the disappointment of the last decade is all the more galling.

Indeed, it will be hard for investors to wash the taste of trillions of dollars of losses from their mouths.

In both the 1980s and the 1990s, the broad S&P 500-stock index index provided a total return (which includes dividends) of more than 400%, according to Capital IQ, a Standard & Poor's business. The total return for the S&P 500 since New Years 2000 has been negative 10.8%.

And here it is...

In looking at the chart, it appears the 80's and 90's were just as much outliers (and the reason for the RICH valuation at the beginning of the decade) as the 00's?

Source: ICMARC

Jake 02 Dec, 2009

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