Michael Batnick

Volatility Will Continue

The S&P 500 is currently up almost 3%. If it were to to close here, it would be the fourth plus or minus 3% move in the last seven days. Maybe the only absolutely-iron-clad-physics-like-law in all of finance is that the best days and the worst days cluster in periods of above average volatility. Exhibit…

These Are the Goods

Your proper benchmark, global market returns, dollar cost averaging, pain in value, and more good reads from the worst week for markets since 2008.