SHY - More On Average Annual Return And Tough Week For High Yield

• For 94 years, the "average, annual" return for large-cap stocks, which per the Ibbotson data is the S&P 500, is above 10%, and probably closer to 12%.
• The only return period that matched or roughly approximates the 103-year average, annual return for the S&P 500 is the decade from 1/1/2010 to 12/31/2019, and obviously from the March 9, 2009 low.
• The pullback in the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq hasn't made everyone universally bearish or that nervous yet, but you don't want to see corporate high-yield get much worse in terms of return.

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