Topic: How To Invest

What is Pat’s commentary for the week of February 6, 2018

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This drop in the stock market may be the start of a widely awaited correction. I strongly doubt that it’s the start of a bear market or long-term falling trend. This quote from Investopedia.com provides one widely accepted definition of a market correction: What is a ‘Correction’? A correction is a reverse movement, usually negative, of at least 10% in a stock, bond, commodity or index to adjust for an overvaluation. Corrections are generally temporary price declines interrupting an uptrend in the market or an asset. A correction has a shorter duration than a bear market or a recession, but it can be a precursor to either. Frequency of Market Corrections Market corrections in the stock market are fairly frequent events. Over the long term, a 10% pullback in stock prices occurs about once a year. Prior to the market correction during the second half of 2015, the stock market had gone nearly three years without a correction. They also tend to be relatively short-term…