Today’s Market Takeaways: August 3, 2021

Two weeks ago, most of the major indexes sold off around 2% on fears of the delta variant. In Today’s Market Takeaways, Research Analyst Liz Laprade discusses what investors should know about market riskThe probability that an investment will decline in value in the short term, along with the magnitude of that decline. Stocks are often considered riskier than bonds because they have a higher probability of losing money, and they tend to lose more than bonds when they do decline. of the virus now.