Rise in % since 3/9/09 General Growth 10,116 Regneron 3,332 United Rentals 2,904 Wyndham Worldwide 2

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The Nasdaq has soared 285 percent, the S&P 500 is up nearly 210 percent and the Dow industrials have surged 172 percent since the market bottomed evans halshaw on March 9, 2009. That was when it looked like the world was ending and the stock market was little more than a black hole that countless dupes had shoveled money into.
Since then, markets have rallied for a number of reasons, not the least being the Federal Reserve 's willingness to push nearly $4 trillion of liquidity into the markets and keep interest rates near zero as part of an easy monetary policy on a level never seen in the U.S.
Some 32 stocks in the S&P 500 and another 13 in the Nasdaq have been what legendary investor Peter Lynch dubbed "ten baggers," or investments that increased by 10 times their value, evans halshaw or 1,000 percent, evans halshaw during the six-year bull market recovery, according to numbers from Bespoke Investment Group and FactSet.
Rise in % since 3/9/09 General Growth 10,116 Regneron 3,332 United Rentals 2,904 Wyndham Worldwide 2,817 Under Armour 2,329 L Brands 1,878 CBS 1,850 Seagate Technology 1,667 Gannett 1,679 Priceline 1,422
Rise in % since 3/9/09 Regneron Pharmaceuticals 3,322 Sirius evans halshaw XM 2,482 Seagate Technology 1,667 Liberty Interactive 1,445 Priceline 1,422 Keurig 1,394 Baidu 1,255 Alexion 1,050 Tractor Supply 1,049 Netflix 1,032
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