Stock market Xinhua News Agency/Getty ImagesWhat if I told you the fastest stock market recovery in history is just about a misunderstanding? As I’ll show, what all these headlines refer to is no longer the stock market as we know it. When you hear words like “the stock market” or “stocks” in the media, they are not referring to every single stock in America. This term is so prevalent it has become a synonym for the entire stock market. This formula is supposed to give us an accurate picture of how America’s entire stock market is doing.

Source: Forbes August 27, 2020 13:17 UTC