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In reply to the discussion: Dow Jones Industrial Average hits 14,000 [View all]Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)47. You have not "lost the interest" that you should have made. You are forgetting about the dividends.
If you bought the Dow stocks in 2007 when the Dow was 14000 and you look at your portfolio value today, when the Dow is back to 14000, it will be worth a lot more than the amount of your investment in 2007. The Dow stocks pay dividends at an average yield that is currently more than 2%. So the dividends you will have received (and, typically, reinvested) will, if anything, be *more* than the "interest you should have made over the intervening years".
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#46
You have not "lost the interest" that you should have made. You are forgetting about the dividends.
Nye Bevan
Feb 2013
#47
I haven't forgotten, I didn't write a complete analysis in the hopes that someone would read it.
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#48