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Historic Tandem Stock and Bond Returns

Historic Tandem Stock and Bond Returns

We’ve only seen 4 other time periods since 1926 with back-to-back calendar years of both stock returns above 16% and bond returns above 7%. This Student of the Market for July looks at those stats, along with the top 20 best starts to a year for stocks, long-term equity cycles, taxable bond fund flows and interesting inflation disconnects.

July 21, 2021
Historic Tandem Stock and Bond Returns
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