Coming into 2020, investors had gone more than a decade without seeing a true bear market. That streak came to an end quickly, though, with worries about the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic sending stock prices sharply lower and making many people nervous about how deep an economic recession could be even after the outbreak gets under control.
Yet even with the big hit to stocks, there's one sign that investors haven't lost their cool. Rather than succumbing to panic, many investors are thinking opportunistically, looking for ways to take advantage of cheaper share prices. The clearest sign of that confidence comes from the exchange traded fund market, and it's providing some much-needed support in a market that might otherwise have seen even more volatility than it did.
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