What About the Stock Market?

What's the worst thing that could happen to your stock market portfolio? The obvious answer is a bear market, one that takes the popular averages down at least 20 percent. In fact, many bear markets have seen a loss of twice that magnitude, including the bear of 2007-2009, which took the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 54 percent from top to bottom. We have now reached the third longest period in Wall Street history without at least a 10 percent correction in the stock market, according to Jim...