dividends: However, while living standardshave flatlined since that date, the stock market revival has been nothing short of spectacular, according to The Guardian. An investment of 10,000 in the FTSE All-share index in August 2008, before the Lehman crash, would now be worth 14,893, without including dividends, and 21,352 with dividends reinvested. As a stock market crash, it ranks alongside the dotcom bubble and the shock of 1987, says the analyst Laith Khalaf of stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown. Facebook Twitter Pinterest The US technology giants collectively known as Faangs Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google Composite Getty The US markets have gained even more. That phenomenal performance is partly down to the rise in value of the Faang stocks Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google and also helped by the weaker pound boosting returns for UK investors. A 10,000 investment in the S&P 500 in September 2008 would now be worth nearly 40,000, with dividends reinvested.
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