Volatile Market: What Does it Mean?

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News Article

Publication Date

9-23-2015

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Savannah Morning News

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This column was published in Savannah Morning News.


Even the most cursory observer of U.S. financial markets can attest to the recent swarm of news headlines talking about dramatic stock market behavior. Indeed, this summer has witnessed some of the broadest stock price gyrations in U.S. history. Investors have had to deal with a confluence of financial and economic shocks from China, a murky picture on the timing of the first Federal Reserve rate hike since June 2006 and overall uncertainty facing a global slowdown in emerging markets. But what does the recent stock market volatility mean historically, and what are the implications for your retirement portfolio? Perhaps investors have been lulled into a state of market complacency as low volatility reigned for a long time before the summer stretch...

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