The sharp market downturn has raised many questions
Three recent Seeking Alpha articles about the current downturn aimed to help investors who have watched their portfolio values shrink. This is new territory for those who entered the market after the bottom in March, 2009.
Victor Dergunov's December 18 article describes "why stocks could be headed a lot lower from here." He cites multiple causes for the market's present weakness and concludes that "there could be substantially more down side."
Benjamin Lavine's December 21 article sees "growing risk to dividend-focused strategies." His