By Investment U Research Team The stock market often experiences turbulence in times of economic instability. It can be nerve-wracking to watch your portfolio go up and down over the course of a week, only to end down four, five or more percentage points. When this happens, murmurings of a stock market crash tend to creep into headlines. Are they warranted? What is a stock market crash?
Stock market crashes are very real and devastating when they occur. But they’re not as simple as the market closing down three or four days in a row. A loss of four or five basis points in a day …read more