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How stock market volatility affects 401K plans

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – The week of Feb. 5, the Dow Jones Industrial Average saw its two biggest point drops in history, both more than a thousand points.

The stomach churning volatility is causing many Americans to ask, just what is going on?

Increasingly, the volatility is being blamed on technology-robots, computer trading and algorithms.

Jane King takes a look at how this volatility with the sock market affects 401K plans.