Understanding the S&P 500’s historical performance isn’t just ... Below, we have another chart. This one shows the effect of using dollar-cost averaging for the period starting in 2004.

The top 20 S&P 500 companies accounted for 52.3% of Q2 2024 buybacks, an increase from Q1 2024’s 50.9%, and above the historical average of 47.5% and the pre-COVID historical average of 44.5%.

The S&P 500 has bounced up and down several times in what’s only been an hour of trading. The market benchmark was down 0.5%, ...

Throughout most of the 1990s, for example, the S&P 500 delivered returns that were well above its historical long-term ... The following chart shows just how much it's done so over the past ...