Here's the Average Stock Market Return in Every Month of the Year
The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) measures the performance of 500 large U.S. companies that account for 80% of domestic equities by market capitalization. For that reason, the index is commonly used as a benchmark for the entire U.S. stock market.
Investors can learn a great deal by analyzing the historical performance of the S&P 500. For instance, the index returned 1,710% over the past three decades, compounding at 10.1% annually. That lengthy time period covers a variety of different market environments, from economic booms to recessions, so investors can reasonably expect similar returns over the next three decades.
However, there are different ways to comb through data, and different lessons to be learned from those analyses. Read on to see the average S&P 500 return in every month of the year.
Source Fool.com
