The mistakes investors should avoid when the stock market plunges
by James F. Peltz, Los Angeles Times
Feb 12, 2018
3 minutes
The recent plunge in stock prices easily could prompt an average investor to bail out of the stock market. But that's often a mistake.
There's no denying how nerve-wracking a 1,000-plus points drop in the Dow Jones industrial average can be, especially when it happens twice in four days as it did last week.
The market also briefly suffered a correction - that is, a drop of 10 percent or more from its most recent high - and headlines about the nosedive
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