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The May 6, 2010, flash crash, [1] [2] [3] also known as the crash of 2:45 or simply the flash crash, was a United States trillion-dollar [4] flash crash (a type of stock market crash) which started at 2:32 p.m. EDT and lasted for approximately 36 minutes.
The stock market rebounded thereafter and ended the year flat. [25] [26] [27] 2015–16 Chinese stock market crash: 12 Jun 2015 China: The Chinese stock market crashed in June and continued falling in July and August. In January 2016, the market also experienced a steep sell-off which set off a global rout.
October 2, 2008: Stock market indices fell 4% as investors were nervous ahead of a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. [ 141 ] October 3, 2008: The House of Representatives passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. [ 142 ]
Back then, 90% of stock trading occurred on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). In 2004, Regulation NMS changed all that -- encouraging the emergence of new electronic exchanges like BATS and ...
American markets are poised to end 2010 with pretty remarkable returns considering how bleak things looked as recently as September. Add in dividends, factor out inflation, and U.S. stocks ...
The Flash Crash of 2010. This was a short-lived crash, but I thought the "flash crash" was worth including as it is a great example of a new type of possible stock market crash -- one caused by ...
[25] That month, September 2008, would see record drops in the Dow, including a 778-point drop to 10,365.45 that was the worst since Black Monday of the 1987 stock market crash [26] and was followed by a loss of thousands of points over the next two months, standing at 8,046 on November 17 and including a 9% plunge in the S&P on December 1, 2008.
Stock price graph illustrating the 2020 stock market crash, showing a sharp drop in stock price, followed by a recovery. A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a major cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic selling and underlying economic ...