{"id":4411,"date":"2007-05-08T18:50:58","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T18:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stockbrokerfraudblog.com\/2007\/05\/is_the_stock_market_boom_reall"},"modified":"2007-05-08T18:50:58","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T18:50:58","slug":"is-the-stock-market-boom-reall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/is-the-stock-market-boom-reall\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Stock Market Boom Really a Bust?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tStock market cheerleaders these days sound as inebriated as New Year’s Eve drunks on Y2K. Too bad their hangovers have apparently affected their memories since 1\/01\/2000. <\/p>\n

Since that date, over 88 months or more than two-thirds of a decade have passed by, yet the Dow Jones Average Industrial Average and the Standard and Poor’s index of 500 stocks have barely moved an inch. Imagine an S& P stock unit, consisting of fractional shares of each stock in the index, costing in dollars the value of the S& P index. On the first day of 2000, that unit would have been worth $1,469.25. At the end of April, 2007 it was worth $1,482.37.<\/p>\n

Measured by these widely recognized yardsticks, if your retirement portfolio was invested only into blue-chip stocks and if you did not spend a dime, the portfolio you held at the birth of the Millennium has finally recovered its losses. After suffering the slings and arrows of anxiety and despair, you finally broke even. But is even this any cause for celebration? <\/p>\n

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Stock market cheerleaders these days sound as inebriated as New Year’s Eve drunks on Y2K. Too bad their hangovers have apparently affected their memories since 1\/01\/2000. Since that date, over 88 months or more than two-thirds of a decade have passed by, yet the Dow Jones Average Industrial Average and the Standard and Poor’s index […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3749],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-timing"],"yoast_head":"\nIs the Stock Market Boom Really a Bust? — Investor Lawyers Blog — May 8, 2007<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stock market cheerleaders these days sound as inebriated as New Year's Eve drunks on Y2K. 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