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Black Monday (also known as Black Tuesday in some parts of the world due to time zone differences) was a global, severe and largely unexpected [1] stock market crash on Monday, October 19, 1987. Worldwide losses were estimated at US$1.71 trillion. [ 2 ]
The crash on October 19, 1987, Black Monday, was the climactic culmination of a market decline that had begun five days before on October 14. The DJIA fell 3.81% on October 14, followed by another 4.60% drop on Friday, October 16. On Black Monday, the DJIA plummeted 508 points, losing 22.6% of its value in one day.
19 Oct 1987 USA: Infamous stock market crash that represented the greatest one-day percentage decline in U.S. stock market history, culminating in a bear market after a more than 20% plunge in the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average. Among the primary causes of the chaos were program trading and illiquidity, both of which fueled the ...
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Oct. 19, 1987 was the day of the largest one day stock market drop in history -- and then-real estate investor Donald Trump claimed to have seen it coming.
As the stock market continues to sell off, Investopedia shared an inside look at how investors are reacting. Caleb Silver, Investopedia Editor-in-Chief joins Yahoo Finance's On The Move to discuss.
As a result of the mid-1980s bull market, the index would more than triple from 102.42 on August 12, 1982, to 336.77 on August 25, 1987. [2] The subsequent stock market crash on October 19, 1987 (Black Monday) saw the index lose 20.47% of its value, its highest daily percentage loss to date. [3]
On the one hand, what a month. But on the other, what a week. Last Friday, the S&P 500 (^GSPC) and Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) closed just off record highs, with the former above its 6,100 mark after ...