It seems like there’s nowhere to hide. Equity investors can certainly be excused for feeling that way at the moment, buffeted by waves of selling washing over markets from New York to Shanghai thanks to an ever-growing list of concerns from tighter financial conditions to trade tensions, corporate earnings, economic growth and geopolitical flare-ups in Europe and the West Asia.
Here’s a look at some of the biggest moves in a tumultuous October so far for markets:
Wealth wipeout (see chart 1)