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Stocks Have Been Volatile. Here's Why I'm Not Panicked Over It.

Stocks Have Been Volatile. Here's Why I'm Not Panicked Over It.

Frankly, at this point, I've been investing for so many years that I'm no stranger to periods of stock market unrest, or even full-blown crashes. When you're new to investing, the idea of stock values dropping substantially can be extremely worrisome. The S&P 500 index (which consists of the 500 largest publicly traded companies and is considered an accurate measure of the broad market's performance) has been through 26 bear markets -- periods where it's lost 20% of its value or more -- since 1928.