Why History Says to Stick With Stocks, How to Invest: BMO
- Nearly two straight years of strong stock returns are making some in markets nervous.
- But history says that there’s precedent for robust market rallies to last.
- Here’s what BMO Capital Markets is saying about stocks and how to invest next year.
Stocks aren’t bound by gravity, so what goes up doesn’t have to come down.
Investors have experienced that firsthand, as the S&P 500 is up 785% since the financial crisis and 68% from its bear-market low set in October 2022. A return of that caliber in two years is exceedingly rare, ranking in the 90th percentile since 1950, according to BMO Capital Markets.
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