How have various stock indices done over the past ten years? The Brazilian Bovespa might have fallen by 10% today, but you’d still have been much better off there than here in the US. On the other hand, if you did invest here in the US, you would have done well to invest in the Dow, rather than the S&P 500.
Index |
Sep 29, 1998 |
Sep 29, 2008 |
Change |
|---|---|---|---|
S&P 500 |
1,049 |
1,119 |
+7% |
Dow |
8,081 |
10,454 |
+29% |
Nasdaq |
1,734 |
1,984 |
+14% |
Brazilian Bovespa |
6,869 |
45,834 |
+ 567% |