Try Topping That: Markets Face a Tougher 2022 After Last Year's Record Run

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The S&P 500 has officially doubled since New Year's 2018, the first time the index has produced a three year return of 100% since March 2000. Last year (that's how we refer to 2021 now) the S&P hit seventy record highs. So things have been going well, in other words, for creatures of Wall Street.

The question investors are now pondering is whether the vaccine- and stimulus-boosted enthusiasm of a blockbuster year will carry over? History says that's not likely.

Source Fool.com