Stock Market Returns Better After Poor Returning Decades

Some will argue the March 9th market low is not the low that will be reached in this bear market cycle. And that could be the case.

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Source: Fidelity Investments (page 26/PDF)

However, market returns after decades that resulted in poor returns are generally followed by decades that generate fairly reasonable returns.

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Source: Fidelity Investments (page 44/PDF)

The 10-year annualized return for the S&P 500 Index as of April 30, 2009 is -2.48%. Could the subsequent ten year period see better returns then?