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from Jeremy Gaunt:
Getting there from here
Depending on how you look at it, August may not have been as bad a month for stocks as advertised. For the month as a whole, the MSCI all-country world stock index lost more than 7.5 percent. This was the worst performance since May last year, and the worst August since 1998.
But if you had bought in at the low on August 9, you would have gained healthy 8.5 percent or so.
In a similar vein, much is made of the fact that the S&P 500 index ended 2009 below the level it started 2000, in other words, took a loss in the decade.
That completely ignores, however, a more than doubling of the index between 2002 and 2007.
from Global Investing:
Revisiting March lows
No, not in the way you think. Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of world stocks hitting what appears to be their post-financial crisis low. The index was the MSCI all-country world index. The low was hit on March 9, 2009.
At the time, many investors reckoned their world was collapsing. Stocks had fallen close to 60 percent in a little more than 16 months. But the low proved to be the start of a remarkable rally that brought the index back up 80 percent until January this year.
