Re: total returns over the last 9 years

<beliavsky@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Today's (Mach 26) Wall Street Journal says the annualized total
> percentage returns of various asset cl***** since March 1999 have been

I just think it's interesting they chose to compute returns over a 9 year 
period. Not 5, 10, 15, some usually used period of time. Yes, I know the 
stock market has been particularly interesting since 1999, but it's not a 
very useful time frame.

Elizabeth Richardson

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