The S&P 500 Is About to Achieve a Feat Accomplished 31 Times Since 1950 That Has a Greater Than 93% Accuracy of Predicting Future Stock Moves

For more than a century, the stock market has been a stomping ground of wealth creation. While real estate, bonds, and commodities have also helped investors grow their wealth, no other asset class has come close to matching the long-term annualized return of stocks.But there's a caveat to the above statement: Getting from Point A to B will, on occasion, tug at investors' heartstrings. Stock market corrections, bear markets, and even crashes are normal and inevitable aspects of the investing cycle, as we witnessed earlier this year from the benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), and growth-focused Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC).Shortly after President Donald Trump unveiled his "Liberation Day" tariff and trade policy on April 2, all three major stock indexes navigated their way through a mini-crash that lasted just shy of a week. The S&P 500 endured its fifth-steepest two-day percentage decline in 75 years, while the Nasdaq Composite briefly dipped into a bear market.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool