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Too much time is spent talking about price. Fundamentals are ultimately what drive equity prices higher over time. To say this another way, a company’s stock price can’t continue to rise unless it continues to be successful. The famous quote by Warren Buffett is, “In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run (...)
The rarity of an “average” year
Barring any big market swings in the last few days of 2010, the year’s performance will be pretty average. The S&P 500 is up about 9 percent for the year, very close to the index’s annualized total return of 8.8 percent for the period 1988 to 2009.
