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Can the rip-roaring good times for the stock market last?

by David Brancaccio , Meredith Garretson and Erika Soderstrom

Mar 14, 2024

Rock bottom interest rates and reduced corporate taxes have helped buoy stock market gains in the past decade.

"There are other parts of the world where stock markets have been doing well recently, but nothing quite as extraordinary as the kind of scale of what's been happening in the U.S.," said The Economist's Zanny Minton Beddoes.

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