Stimulus cheques have buoyed America’s stockmarket
Stocks most popular with retail investors rose by 14% in the two weeks after cheques were received
America’s stockmarket enjoyed a steady bull run between 2009 and 2021. Although the advent of the covid-19 pandemic briefly sent stock prices down, the rebound was substantial: $10,000 deposited into a fund tracking the s&p 500 in March 2020 would have grown to $21,416 at the market’s peak in December 2021.
This article appeared in the Graphic detail section of the print edition under the headline “From Main Street to Wall Street”
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