110 Years of market data on record
10.4% Average annual return, all decades
41,593× What $1 became over the full span
8 Major downturns survived since 1926
Business

Mortgage Rate Surge Freezes American Housing Market

Prospective homebuyers are retreating from the market in droves as a combination of soaring mortgage rates and stubborn inflation pushes home sales to their lowest point in sixteen years. New data from the National Association of Realtors shows that existing home sales plummeted to 3.75 million units in October, marking an 8.8 percent drop compared […]

Stock

AI Cloud Sector Shaken by Nvidia Leadership Crisis Despite Strong Growth

Nebius entered the trading day with strong momentum after reporting fiscal third quarter results that beat analyst projections. The AI focused cloud computing firm managed to keep losses lower than expected while driving revenue past estimates, signaling robust demand for specialized infrastructure. This positive trend was mirrored earlier in the week by rival CoreWeave, which […]

Sport

Old Trafford Shakeup as United Pivot Toward Pochettino After Carrick Exit

Michael Carrick likely saw the writing on the wall long before his official departure from Manchester United. In a series of calculated moves, chief executive Omar Berrada and director of football Jason Wilcox signaled that a decision regarding the head coach’s future was imminent. This included high level meetings in Monaco with co owner Sir […]

A century, one decade at a time

Average annual return of the S&P 500 in each decade since 1920. Two of the eleven lost money. The other nine paid for them.

+18.0%
1920s
Roaring Twenties bull market
-0.9%
1930s
Great Depression
+9.0%
1940s
WWII and postwar boom
+19.4%
1950s
Post-war expansion and consumer boom
+7.8%
1960s
Space Race, Vietnam War spending
+5.9%
1970s
Oil crisis and stagflation
+17.3%
1980s
Reaganomics and market deregulation
+18.1%
1990s
Dot-com and technology boom
-0.9%
2000s
Dot-com bust and financial crisis
+13.5%
2010s
Longest bull market in history
+7.0%
2020s
Pandemic shock and AI-driven rebound
Best decade 1950s +19.4% Post-war expansion and consumer boom
Worst decade 1930s -0.9% Great Depression
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Decade averages, price return excluding dividends. Past performance does not guarantee future results.