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Stock Market History for Your Future

April Student of the Market

Do you feel your satisfaction level with the market is tracking with the norm? Maybe this brief history of long term stock performance might help change your mind. This month’s Student of the Market shows the numbers on how $1,000 invested in 1926 grew to over $14 million and how best days for stocks tend to closely follow the worst days.

April 27, 2022
April Student of the Market
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