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Performance Across the Decade in 7 Charts

How has the decade stacked up for stocks and bonds?

Katherine Lynch, Tom Lauricella

Dec 18, 2019

This article originally appeared in Morningstar Direct Cloud and Morningstar Office Cloud.

As the 2010s draw to a close, investors can look back on a decade where bull markets in both stocks and bonds repeatedly defied predictions that the good times would come to an end. The result: Those investors who stayed in the markets enjoyed solid long-term returns across their portfolios.

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