Fasten Your Seatbelt, Volatility Is Back

Boo! If you thought last week’s market action — Thursday’s 335-point plunge in the Dow Jones Industrial Average made it the worst single day for stocks so far in 2014 — was just an unpleasantly early Halloween “trick” to follow the “treat” (a 275-point gain in the Dow) only the day before, you’re wrong.