Stocks go up like a balloon, down like a rocket

By Marcus Padley
Updated May 13 2014 - 10:15am, first published April 23 2014 - 5:23am
What goes up must come down.
What goes up must come down.
What goes up must come down
What goes up must come down
Ups and downs
Ups and downs
Ups and downs.
Ups and downs.

Here is a chart of the Dow Jones and its historical volatility using a 50-week period. You can see the pick-up in volatility in the global financial crisis, and again when we were worrying about Greece and the European Monetary Union breaking up.

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