Seven Charts Showing Just How Crazy October Has Been for Stocks
- The S&P 500 looks for first two-day gain of the month
- Intraday volatility is up, with 5 moves of 1% or more Tuesday
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It’s been a helter-skelter October in stocks.
Investors have been on edge, with volatility spiking and the S&P 500 Index on track for its worst month since 2010. The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 is doing worse, falling more than 10 percent into a correction. Even the rallies are nuts. Like on Tuesday, when major averages all posted gains greater than 1.5 percent, but the S&P 500 rose and fell more than 1 percent five times.