{
  "id": 3835967,
  "title": "Nervous About the Stock Market? This Is Warren Buffett's Best Advice.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/nervous-about-the-stock-market-this-is-warren-buffetts-best-advice",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-27T22:05:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Motley Fool",
    "slug": "motley-fool",
    "url": "https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/08/27/nervous-about-the-stock-market-this-is-warren-buff/?source=iedfolrf0000001"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Investing in the stock market may appear straightforward at first glance. Since its founding in 1957, the S&P 500 has delivered an average annual total return of roughly 10%, despite the nation experiencing ten recessions. A straightforward approach to capitalize on this long-term performance is to invest in the S&P 500 via a low-cost exchange-traded fund, like Vanguard's S&P 500 ETF (VOO), which can often outperform individual stocks and actively managed funds.\n\nYet, attaining those long-term returns necessitates maintaining investments during significant downturns. Over the past two decades, the S&P 500 has witnessed peak-to-trough declines of 57% from October 2007 to March 2009, 34% from February to March 2020, and 25% from January 2022 to October 2022. These downturns - resulting from the Great Recession, the COVID-19 crisis, and the Federal Reserve's rate hikes, respectively - led many long-term investors to withdraw from the market.",
  "summary": "If you're feeling fearful, it might be time to get greedy.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
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      {
        "outlet": "Nasdaq Markets",
        "title": "Nervous About the Stock Market? This Is Warren Buffett's Best Advice.",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/nervous-about-the-stock-market-this-is-warren-buffetts-best-advice-3837772",
        "published": "2026-08-27T22:25:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}