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The Financial Services Industry is Still the Largest S&P 500 Sector – Even after the Collapse of its Stock Values

For three decades, the market value of the financial services industry segment within the Standard and Poors 500 composite index rose steadily to reach 21% in the middle of 2007. This article updates an August 2007 article, “The Biggest Personal Finance Story of the Past 30 Years,” which was published just as the real estate […]

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