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Three reasons why most of us shouldn't worry about the global stock market meltdown

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imageIt was a red day on Wall Street Monday.Market graph via www.shutterstock.com

On Monday, the world’s stock markets continued to fall after suffering steep losses the previous week.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, one of the most widely followed indexes, opened for trading by dropping more than 1,000 points in the...

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