Stocks are now in a correction — here's what that means

Stocks continued their wild week and are now in a correction.
Corrections are usually defined as a 10% decline from a recent or all-time high, while a bear market is a more sustained and deeper drop of 20%.
The benchmark S&P 500 closed at 2,581.08, about 10.2% below its closing high of 2,872.87 on January 26.
Similarly, the Dow Jones industrial average closed at 23,860.46, down about 10.4% from its high of 26,616.71, also on January 26.
The last time the S&P 500 entered a correction was