Several Big Tech stocks were dropping sharply Friday afternoon, weighing on the S&P 500 index as it struggled to keep its weekly gain. The S&P 500 was down 0.7% Friday, as Google parent Alphabet Inc.

With the market stacking two back-to-back years of ~25% returns, we thought this would be a good time to remind investors that they shouldn’t expect these types of returns forever.

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