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The Stock Market's as Strong as It's Ever Been, but There's a Catch

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Unlike most of the time prior to 2000, now you need 20-year holding periods to ensure you're achieving the sorts of reliable returns you'd expect -- and need -- from the stock market. After all, when those dividends are reinvested, the net returns on the right dividend stocks can rival those of some popular growth stocks.

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How Will the Stock Market Perform in 2024? Here's What Wall Street Thinks.

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How will the stock market perform in 2024? Most analysts are at least somewhat optimistic about how the stock market will fare in 2024. JPMorgan Chase 's Marko Kolanovic and Dubravko Lakos-Bujas are notably bearish about the stock market's prospects in 2024. Here's what Wall Street thinks.

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How Should a Beginner Invest in Stocks? 1 Simple Investment for a Lifetime of Security.

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But let's focus on stock investing -- and i f there's one product that is perfect for beginners, it has to be exchange-traded funds (ETFs). In short, ETFs are like mutual funds , but they trade like stocks. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $43,756 !*

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Motley Fool Co-Founder David Gardner Helps Set Investors Up for Long-Term Success

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Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $43,229 !* Dave, at the age of 28, was savvy enough that he had a CPA, so he was an accountant, but he had very little experience with the stock market. Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, youd have $454,283 !* Big headline.

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Nvidia Stock Is Joining the Dow Jones Industrial Average Stock Index and Intel Is Being Booted

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As background, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is a 30-large stock index that aims to be representative of the U.S. stock market, which in turn is generally a reflection of the U.S. So, in the early decades of its history -- it was launched in 1896 -- it was primarily composed of heavy industrial and energy stocks.

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"Rule Breaker Investing" Mailbag: Portfolio-Level Thinking

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Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $46,181 !* I was listening back to my Mailbag last year at this time, and I said, and I quote, "And maybe just maybe in 2024, the stock market will do as well as it did this year." Royal Caribbean up six times in value, well beating the market.

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How Should a Beginner Invest in Stocks? Try This Index Fund.

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stock market. So the S&P 500 is often used as a proxy for the market -- though it does omit lots of smaller companies. Why invest in an S&P 500 index fund? So an S&P 500 index fund is not a compromise dooming you to sub-par returns.

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