Stocks in Europe and Japan are moving ahead U.S. shares this year. Here’s what you can do now—without panicking.

Second, the U.S. stock market recovered remarkably quickly from the tariffs imposed during the first Trump administration. Specifically, while the S&P 500 declined 19.8% over a three-month period between September and December 2018, the index had already recouped its losses and reached a new high by May 2019.

With the selloff in U.S. equities accelerating, investors should prepare themselves for a potential “flash crash” in the stock market, says Ed