Stock Markets Post a Strong First Half of 2021

The stock market has been a huge long-term winner for investors. One of the reasons why stocks do as well as they do over the long run is that they seem consistently to defy naysayers and their calls for short-term corrections, with bull market rallies lasting far longer than most people ever expect. That appears to be the case once again in 2021, with many market participants having believed that a pullback after 2020's stellar performance was largely inevitable.

Below, we'll look at how markets have fared as the first half of 2021 drew to a close. First, though, we'll look more specifically at how major market benchmarks fared on the last day of the second quarter.

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