Toll Brothers rose 2.4% on Friday which was nice to see after my recent comments about it and purchases of the stock. This builds on the bigger gain of Tuesday.
I have updated my article that compares the long-term performance of stocks, bonds, cash and Gold. It was back in the Summer of 2001 that I first was able to obtain the data to calculate for myself the after-inflation gains from the various asset classes over the long term. Since then I have updated the graphs each year. Little did I know that stocks were going to do quite so poorly in the years since the stock market bubble peak of 1999. Nevertheless the data gives me confidence that stocks do win out in the long run. Besides that with judicious stock selection some investors can make good returns in stocks even when the stock indexes do not do well.