If a Stock Market Crash Is Coming, This ETF Could Be the Smartest Buy Right Now
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Nobody likes the thought of a stock market crash, but every investor should be prepared for one. As The Motley Fool notes, "The stock market loses 10% of its value about once per year on average. Declines of 20% tend to happen every four or five years. Even bigger stock market crashes, with the major indexes losing 30% of their worth, occur at roughly 10-year intervals."
No one knows where the current market is heading, but many investors are in or nearing fear mode, and it's always better to be overprepared than underprepared. I've been thinking about what might happen, and in the event of a stock market crash, I think the Vanguard Total International Stock ETF (NASDAQ: VXUS) would be a great ETF to have in your portfolio.
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