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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
A couple years ago, the infamous Flash Crash sent stocks tumbling, with the Dow Jones Industrials (INDEX: ^DJI) falling a thousand points in a matter of minutes before rebounding to earn back most ...
In 2010, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average suddenly dropped 600 points and then just as quickly recovered -- the so-called "flash crash"-- high-frequency trading, or HFT, became the new ...
Stock market crashes in India; List of stock market crashes and bear markets, including: Wall Street crash of 1929 (October 24–29, 1929) Black Monday (1987) (October 19, 1987) Friday the 13th mini-crash (October 13, 1989) October 27, 1997, mini-crash; Economic effects of the September 11 attacks; 2007–2008 financial crisis; 2010 flash crash ...