Over the long run, Wall Street is a wealth-building machine. But when looked at over shorter time lines, the broader market is quite unpredictable as the 2022 bear market showed.

Though stock market corrections and bear markets are an inevitable part of the long-term investing cycle, they also represent surefire opportunities for patient investors. Despite never knowing (with any certainty) when corrections will begin, how long they'll last, or how steep the ultimate decline will be in the major U.S. stock indexes, history has shown that every sizable drop was eventually put in the rearview mirror by a bull market rally. With the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S 500, and Nasdaq Composite still well below their all-time highs, bargains can still be had.

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