By Marc Lichtenfeld The market initially fell on Friday on the news that President Trump is infected with COVID-19. Making the situation even more serious is that he’s in a high-risk group being overweight and 74 years old.
These kinds of events remind investors, especially those who have gotten spoiled by the long bull market, that stocks sometimes do go down.
But events that rock our world don’t always rock the market…
The attack on Pearl Harbor led to stock market losses that took a little more than seven months to gain back.
President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while in office in 1955. The market slid …read more
