In 2015, the stock market reached an all-time high of $19 trillion- this means that the stock market is worth more than the entire GDP of any country in the world!
The stock market is a great way to create wealth– over the past 100 years, the S&P 500 has averaged an annual return of 9.85%.
The stock market is very volatile- in the past 100 years, there have been three major economic crashes. However, it has still managed to pull through and come out even stronger!