Investors have rarely been this scared of a stock-market crash over the past 50 years — and that’s flashing some scary parallels to the 1987 meltdown

• The stock market may have hit a new record, but investor trepidation is still lurking under the surface. One measure shows it near its highest level in roughly 50 years.
• That’s flashing some eerie parallels to the 1987 market crash, which featured the biggest single-day wipeout in history.

Source: Investors have rarely been this scared of a stock-market crash over the past 50 years — and that’s flashing some scary parallels to the 1987 meltdown