Investors worry the bull market is getting old. But history shows it can continue to age gracefully.

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Mark Hulbert
Investors worry the bull market is getting old. But history shows it can continue to age gracefully.
Reflections on the bull market’s fourth birthday
Contrary to a widespread current worry among some on Wall Street, bull markets do not die of old age,
The occasion for their concern is this bull market’s fourth birthday, which it celebrates this week. Of the 38 bull markets since 1900 in the calendar maintained by Ned Davis Research, 33 never lived as long. The average length of all 38 bull markets is 25 months (just over two years) and their median length is 22 months (less than two years). That certainly seems to imply that the current bull market is getting long in the tooth.

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