Getting from Point A to B on Wall Street rarely, if ever, occurs in a straight line. Although the major indexes have steadily increased in value when examined over multiple decades, stock market corrections and bear markets are normal occurrences in the long-term investing cycle.

Since this decade began, investors have navigated their way through two bear markets -- the COVID-19 crash in 2020 and the 2022 bear market. Despite all three major stock indexes rallying more than 20% off of their 2022 bear market lows, they're still markedly below their record highs, which were set between November 2021 and January 2022. In other words, bargains still abound for patient investors willing to seek them out.

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