3 Ideal Stocks for Retirees to Buy During a Bear Market
As unpleasant as this might be to hear, stock market corrections, crashes, and bear markets are par for the course when putting your money to work on Wall Street. Whereas 2021 saw stocks march higher without much of a correction, all three major U.S. stock indexes plunged into a bear market last year and delivered their worst full-year returns since the financial crisis in 2008.
Although bear markets can be scary and play on investors' emotions, they've historically been the ideal time for investors young and old to pounce. While we'll never know precisely when a bear market will bottom or how long the decline will last ahead of time, we do know that every bear market throughout history has eventually been fully recouped (and some) by a bull market.
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