Capital growth and dividends attract investors to the stock market. Over my lifetime, which is coming up on six decades, investing savings in the stock market produced incredible returns. Despite the occasional correction, which is always ugly and frightening when it appears, owning a diversified portfolio of equities and reinvesting dividends has been the road to riches for many investors.
However, when all hell breaks loose in the stock market, some market participants sell their shares and seek safe havens to hide and protect their assets until it is safe to come back out and