Despite 25 percent unemployment in the 1930�s, the oil embargo in the 1970�s and today�s war on terror, the nation�s financial markets have prospered during the last 75 years.  Alan Skrainka, Edward Jones chief market strategist and author of the new strategy report, Why Invest? feels that despite such setbacks, the stock market has historically grown and prospered:

�Today, we are again facing a lot of concerns such as the war on terrorism, the war in Iraq and economic uncertainty, but these difficulties are no more daunting than the previous challenges that we�ve overcome.  Success as an investor means maintaining perspective.  In fact, obvious reasons not to invest may actually be reasons to consider investing more.�

While past performance does not assure future results, Skrainka�s report offers decade-by-decade market analysis covering the past 70 years and provides long term perspective for individual investors.  For a copy of the study, w-w-w-dot-edwardjones-dot-com.

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