the real # is within 10% - the headline is very misleading. Yes, the article says with dividends, etc. but that is not how you look at share prices.
No Keith, the article is right, and your "within 10%" is misleading. Your "within 10%" is dlooking at the price index, disregarding the dividends that the S&P 500 stocks pay out to their investors, which is averaging just over 2% a year. You're basically saying that 2% annual dividends don't matter, so I guess they must be evaporating into thin air then? If there were no dividends, and all that dividend cash was kept at the companies, then the S&P would be at the "just 1%. What the aricle is saying is that an investor who had invested $100 in the S&P at the market high, would now have $90 in the S&P, and $9 cash from dividends, which still means the investor has $99.
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