The U.S. market is now four times bigger than the next largest market, up from two times bigger in 2008.
The U.S. stock market has far outpaced other global markets since the financial crisis of 2008-09. The S&P 500, the leading benchmark for large U.S. stocks, has exceeded the growth of the second-strongest market by more than 200 percentage points.
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