Politics

Campaign Shift Leaves Historic Finale in the Dust

Ken Paxton seems to have abandoned the grand finale of his Come and Take It bus tour, scrubbing a planned rally at the Alamo just days before Election Day. While the Republican U.S. Senate nominee had originally framed the historic site as the ultimate symbol of resistance for his closing message, the event has vanished […]

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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

High Stakes and Heavy Losses Cloud Anthropic’s Public Debut

Anthropic may be building some of the most advanced artificial intelligence in the world, but its attempt to enter the public market is hitting a wall of financial skepticism. The company chose a precarious moment to unveil its IPO prospectus, arriving just as its primary backers—Microsoft, Google, and Amazon—reported quarterly results that shook investor confidence. […]

Stock

Tech Turmoil Hits Home as Intel Plummets in Historic Sell Off

It was a disastrous Friday for Intel as shares crashed 29 percent, marking the company’s steepest single day decline since the 1970s. The collapse followed a dismal set of projections fueled by a stagnant personal computer market and a tragic industrial accident at a fabrication plant in Israel. For CEO Lip Bu Tan, who stepped […]

Sport

Masterclass in Riyadh as Canelo Outboxes Mbilli to Recapture Gold

Saul Canelo Alvarez proved that age is just a number on Saturday night at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, delivering a tactical masterclass to reclaim the WBC super middleweight world title. Facing the previously unbeaten Christian Mbilli, the Mexican superstar looked like a man possessed by his younger self, utilizing superior ring generalship and precision […]

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.