FYI: 2019 has been a good year for pretty much everything in the financial markets.
U.S. stocks, long-term government bonds, and gold are all up big this year:
I can’t remember a year when all three of these very different assets were all up so much at the same time.
So I looked back at the annual returns on all three going back to 1930. There was exactly one time when all three were up 15% or more in the same year.
In 1986, the S&P 500 was up 18% while gold (+22%) and long-term government bonds (+25%) were also up a lot.
Keeping with this same theme, I wanted to find out how often the three of these assets were all down during the same year.
This too has happened just once since 1930. It just so happened to be last year:
Regards,
Ted
https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/08/everybody-wins/
