Stock Market Plunge: 3 Boring but Beautiful Stocks That Can Make You Richer by 2030
Wall Street and investors have been sent a stern reminder in 2022 that stocks can go down just as easily as they can climb. Since hitting their respective all-time highs, the 126-year-old Dow Jones Industrial Average, widely followed S&P 500, and growth-driven Nasdaq Composite have tumbled a respective 17%, 22%, and 33%. This places the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite firmly in the grip of a bear market.
Although big declines in the broader market can be scary and tug on investors' emotions, history shows corrections and bear markets can be fantastic buying opportunities for patient investors. After all, every notable decline in the major U.S. stock indexes was eventually erased by a bull market.
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