Last year the longest recession in U.S. history turned extraordinary profits for investors who jumped on the stock market early in the year 2009.

The market value of 5 thousand U.S. companies from 1 January to 31 December 2009 increased by 27.09%, which amounted to about $ 3 TRIL. Told RIA Novosti with reference to the company Wilshire International, which deals with the statistics of the stock market. "This is the most profitable year of market growth in dollar value in the history of the Wilshire 5000 index," - noted the company. Turning point in the flight of investors from Wall Street last year was the adoption of a stabilization package on February 17. Since

then the market came down played $ 4.2 TRIL. However, compared with the peak of Wall Street, which fell on October 9, 2007, shares of five thousand largest American companies depreciated at 26.94%, or $ 5.3 TRIL.