(Reuters)U.S. stock markets lurched from negative to positive territory and then hovered at level in afternoon trading Tuesday as investors attempted to navigate another rocky day in the markets. Veteran traders and stock strategists say the slide in stock prices over the past week is is a natural dip. The Post’s Heather Long explains what’s going on with the Dow Jones industrial average, which experienced its worst drop in about two years. He said that computer trading algorithms made the market drop on Monday worse. Though a dip had been expected for a while, U.S. losses seemed to spook global markets.

Source: Washington Post February 06, 2018 05:13 UTC