The annual tsunami of prognostications on how the stock market and the economy will perform in 2018 was beginning to slow. Then the stock market had a major hiccup and the punditry scrambled back to its soap boxes to give us another dose.
After the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 fell more than 4 percent in one trading session, many advisors said they were expecting a market correction and had prepared clients for it.