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Do Choppy Markets Keep You Up at Night?
While the market has been relatively calm in recent weeks, that wasn’t true in the spring. The S&P 500 Index notched returns of at least +1% or –1% on 12 out of 20 days in March, double the frequency of such returns over the past 30 years. Then, in early April, we saw huge down days followed by a huge up day. In Episode 7 of “The Informed Investor” podcast, Dimensional’s Mark Gochnour, Wes Crill, and Jake DeKinder explain how to make sense of spikes in stock market volatility.