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The Shanghai Composite Index plummeted from a high of 3703 in September 2021 to 2730 on 2 February 2024, marking a 26.3% decline ahead of the Chinese New Year. The government swiftly intervened in the stock market following the crash by prohibiting short selling and reshuffling government officials.
The stock fell steadily over October, losing 9.6% to make it the third worst-performing stock on the blue chip index. ... if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $42,169!*
By the end of the year the index closed 70 of the year's 252 trading days at new record closing prices, the second highest to date behind the 77 recorded in 1995. [46] 2021 also marked the first year since 2005 when the S&P 500 beat the other two closely watched U.S. stock indices: the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite. [47]
Like the Nasdaq, however, we find the Global Financial Crisis front and center among the worst years endured by stock market investors. The Dow lost 14.4% in the first six months of 2008, only to ...
January 11, 2008: Bank of America agreed to buy Countrywide Financial for $4 billion in stock. [111] January 18, 2008: Stock markets fell to a yearly low as the credit rating of Ambac, a bond insurance company, was downgraded. Meanwhile, an increase in the amount of withdrawals causes Scottish Equitable to implement up to 12 month delays on ...
Stocks slipped on Friday to end a brutal 2022 with a whimper, as Wall Street wrapped up its worst year since 2008 on a sour note.
Five of the Nasdaq’s 15 worst days ever came between April 2000 and January 2001. On April 14, 2000 the index fell by nearly 10 percent, its second-biggest single-day decline ever at the time.
Year Person(s) associated with incident at time of loss USD 10 bn 1 USD 10 bn -19.4% USD 8.06 bn United States: Archegos Capital Management [4] Total return swaps 2021 Bill Hwang: USD 9 bn: 1: USD 9 bn: −3.7%: USD 8.67 bn United States: Morgan Stanley [5] Credit Default Swaps: 2008 Howie Hubler: USD 9 bn: 1: USD 9 bn: −7.0%: USD 8.37 bn ...