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When the first stock market index was created in 1884, there was no motorcar on the streets and no one could imagine, that humans will ever fly in airplanes. Stock markets – or meeting points for buyers and sellers – were around for centuries, with the merchants of venice or the dutch exchanges. Years later, the London stock market was …

The S&P 500 index contains 500 large companies listed at the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq. The index can be viewed as a fairly good base, when it comes to examine the performance of different sectors like technology-, pharma-, energy- or cyclical stocks. I checked the data for the past 10 years and came up with the result, …