The stock market is off to a really bad start in 2016, in case you hadn’t noticed. In fact, before last week’s bounce, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was having its worst start to a new year since at least 1897. That's when they began keeping records. William McKinley was president.
Right or wrong, two main culprits have been widely cited as catalysts for the selling: China and oil. And at least part of oil’s slide is attributed to weakness in China, which in 2015 notched its slowest GDP growth in 25 years.
