The ongoing euro-crisis is adding volatility to the present economic environment.

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Also adding to volatility in Treasuries are banks, which have increasingly substituted Treasuries for corporate loans as loan growth has slowed.

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Adding a low-volatility tilt could have improved performance, since low-volatility stocks tend to hold up better during market routs.

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Adding to the market volatility last week was the intervention to slow down the sharp increases in the value of the Swiss franc and the Japanese yen.

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Traders and producers said China's rise as an apple-eating nation is adding another layer of volatility to a market that has been hit by freezes and droughts across the globe in the past several years.

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When the opposite happened, those investors scrambled to change their positions, bond strategists said, adding to the market's unusual volatility.

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When the opposite happened, those investors scrambled to correct their positions, bond strategists said, adding to the market's unusual volatility.

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Volatility helps you, at least if you're adding a steady stream of new money to your retirement account.

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But the funds had become too important: rather than adding stability, as marketmakers are supposed to do, they added volatility.

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