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The DJIA on May 6, 2010 (11:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT) 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. [5]
Remember the flash crash? That was the 20 minutes on May 6, 2010 when the Dow lost almost 1,000 points before partially recovering. Most investors have forgotten about it.
This type of event occurred on May 6, 2010 in the United States. A $4.1 billion trade on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) resulted in a loss to the Dow Jones Industrial Average of over 1,000 points and then a rise to approximately previous value, all over about fifteen minutes. The mechanism causing the event has been heavily researched and ...
AP By Brian Korn and Bryan Y.M. Tham Three years ago, on May 6, 2010, U.S. capital markets experienced the "flash crash," when the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered a stunning 1,000-point loss ...
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 vicious decline for the ...
Washington is finely attuned to the public expectation that it needs to do something about the May 6 "flash crash" -- when the Dow fell almost 1,000 points within about 15 minutes, and then ...
The brief but dramatic stock market crash of May 6, 2010, was initially thought to have been caused by high-frequency trading. [74] The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged to its largest intraday point loss, but not percentage loss, [75] in history, only to recover much of those losses within minutes. [76]
On May 6, 2010, the Dow plunged nearly 1,000 points in a matter of minutes Coincidentally, it's also the anniversary of one of the scariest days in market history. After Market: On Flash Crash's ...