Market volatility, at the atomic level
The current volatility of the stock market is complex and much-discussed. What is sometimes forgotten is that what actually makes up volatility is millions of little choices made by a giant community of investors, all placing different bets on where the market will go.
If one looks at market volatility like a physicist, the atoms are single moments, when an investor gets a piece of news. Listen to the audio story to go inside one of those moments.
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