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By March 9, 2009, the Dow had fallen to 6,500, a percentage decline exceeding the pace of the market's fall during the Great Depression and a level which the index had last seen in 1997. On March 10, 2009, a countertrend bear market rally began, taking the Dow up to 8,500 by May 6, 2009. Financial stocks were up more than 150% during this rally.
Souk Al-Manakh stock market crash: Aug 1982 Kuwait: Black Monday: 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 ...
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
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 ...
Getty Images/Image Source In 1602, the Dutch East India Co. established the Amsterdam Bourse, now recognized as the world's oldest stock exchange. However, it wasn't until 1720 that the first ...
With that in mind, here are five of the most notable U.S. stock market crashes, and a brief rundown of the causes and results of each one. Man staring at financial charts with hands on head in ...
The DJIA, a price-weighted average (adjusted for splits and dividends) of 30 large companies on the New York Stock Exchange, peaked on October 9, 2007 with a closing price of 14,164.53. On October 11, 2007, the DJIA hit an intra-day peak of 14,198.10. The decline of 20% by mid-2008 was in tandem with other stock markets across the globe.
The 1987 stock market crash, or Black Monday, is known for being the largest single-day percentage decline in U.S. stock market history. On Oct. 19, the Dow fell 22.6 percent, a shocking drop of ...