What I Bought When Stocks Tanked
by Kathy Kristof, Contributing Editor, Kiplinger's Personal Finance
Mar 08, 2018
2 minutes
As those who have followed this column for a while know, I become nervous during stock market rallies and practically gleeful during market corrections. So when the market dropped by 7.8% over a one-week stretch in early February (which happened to contain my birthday), I considered it a gift.
Why? I was holding more than $26,000 in cash in the Practical Investing portfolio that I wanted to deploy.
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