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Stock Market Returns
The chart below breaks down the annual performance of developed international stock markets. Each country’s performance seems to bounce around at random year after year, but over the long term those returns smooth out. While it’s difficult to pick the best performing country every year, a diversified global portfolio offers the benefits of international stock market performance which in turn lowers risk. The table below ranks the best to worst international stock market performance over the past 15 years.
The chart below breaks down the annual performance of the S&P 500 sectors. Not only do you get an idea of how a small group of stocks affects the S&P each year, you see how each sector performs through economic and stock market cycles.
While sectors can bounce around from year to year, top to bottom and back again, over the long-term, those big swings even out. The chart shows annual returns for the eleven stock market sectors against the S&P 500.
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