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The S&P 500 keeps hitting all-time highs

Axios · · 152 words · By Emily Peck
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The article discusses the frequency of S&P 500 all-time highs in the current decade compared to previous eras. It suggests that these peaks are common and argues against the strategy of avoiding stocks during such periods, citing RBC data.

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Techniques found 1
Topics 2

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What happened

The S&P 500 has hit a new all-time high 204 times so far this decade, per data compiled by RBC.

Why it matters

The big picture: All-time highs, like the ones we hit Thursday, aren't as rare as you think.

Common ground

But they were far less common in the stagflation 1970s and the post-dot-com bubble 2000s.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

The article discusses the frequency of S&P 500 all-time highs in the current decade compared to previous eras. It suggests that these peaks are common and argues against the strategy of avoiding stocks during such periods, citing RBC data.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://axios.com/2026/04/17/the-sp-500-keeps-hitting-all-time-highs

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eFinder identified 1 propaganda technique in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 3 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “But they were far less common in the stagflation 1970s and the post-dot-com bubble 2000s.”
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The claim appears in the same web search result as Claim 0 ('But they were far less common in the stagflation 1970s and the post-dot-com bubble 2000s'). No other independent sources provide a comparative analysis of all-time high frequency for these specific decades.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The S&P 500 is a stock market index maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices. It comprises 503 common stocks which are issued by 500 large-cap companies traded on American stock exchanges (including the 30…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S&P_500_companies
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" is a recurring song ranking compiled by the American magazine Rolling Stone. It is based on weighted votes from selected musicians, critics, and industry figures. …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — S&P 500 (Standard and Poor's 500) is a stock market index tracking the stock performance of 500 leading companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States. It is one of the most commonly followe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S&P_500
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Claim 2: “Looking just one year out from each all-time high, market corrections have occurred only 9% of the time, the bank finds.”
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The provided evidence does not contain the specific 9% statistic or the RBC finding regarding market corrections within one year of an all-time high. While RBC is mentioned in Wikipedia, the specific data point is not corroborated by any of the provided search results.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war covers the period from 1 January 2026 to the present day.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Below is a list of companies having stocks that are included in the S&P MidCap 400 (S&P 400) stock market index. The index, maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices, comprises the common stocks of 400 mid-…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S&P_400_companies
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — RBC Bank is the trading name of RBC Bank (Georgia), N.A., the United States–based retail banking division of the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) which is targeted toward Canadian snowbirds, expatriates, an…
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Claim 3: “The S&P 500 has hit a new all-time high 204 times so far this decade, per data compiled by RBC.”
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One web search result explicitly contains the exact phrasing of the claim ('The S&P 500 has hit a new all-time high 204 times so far this decade'), but no other independent sources in the provided evidence corroborate this specific number or the attribution to RBC.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — JPMorgan Chase & Co. (stylized as JPMorganChase) is an American multinational banking institution headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. It is the largest bank in the United Stat…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — ABB Group is a Swedish-Swiss technology company, that operates in the fields of electrification and automation. The company was formed in 1988 from the merger of two electrical engineering companies, …
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