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Late June 2008: Despite the U.S. stock market falling to a 20% drop off its highs, commodity-related stocks soared as oil traded above $140/barrel for the first time and steel prices rose above $1,000 per ton. Worries about inflation combined with strong demand from China encouraged people to invest in commodities during the 2000s commodities boom.
Stock markets plunged as the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the seizure and sale of Washington Mutual's banking. Alamy Five years ago this month, the U.S. financial system began a downward ...
Recessions. Many factors directly and indirectly serve as the causes of the Great Recession that started in 2008 with the US subprime mortgage crisis.The major causes of the initial subprime mortgage crisis and the following recession include lax lending standards contributing to the real-estate bubbles that have since burst; U.S. government housing policies; and limited regulation of non ...
Stock prices had been falling for months and wouldn't start to bounce back until mid-2009. But if you'd simply stayed in the market, you'd have seen total returns of around 152% within 10 years ...
As of the week of November 16 stock losses in United States markets during 2008 as measured by the S&P 500 were equivalent to those suffered in 1931, over 50%. [38] Total losses during the Great Depression exceeded 80% but that was over a three-year period.
Stock markets plunged as the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the seizure and sale of Washington Mutual's banking. Alamy Five years ago this month, the U.S. financial system began a downward ...
It's the financial market for oil, filled with both professional speculators and amateur investors betting on poorly understood oil exchange-traded funds, who have ratcheted up the price of gas to ...
Rising gas prices are everywhere in the news as the fall-out continues. One article fears for $5 gas by July 4, others focus on the unlikely winners in the wake of such high prices at the pump ...