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The New York Stock Exchange reopened that day following a nearly four-and-a-half-month closure since July 30, 1914, and the Dow in fact rose 4.4% that day (from 71.42 to 74.56). However, the apparent decline was due to a later 1916 revision of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which retroactively adjusted the values following the closure but ...
The two tables below show the largest one-day changes between a given day's close and the close of the previous trading day in terms of points. [ 3 ] Largest daily point gains [ 2 ]
Largest intraday percentage drops An intraday percentage drop is defined as the difference between the previous trading session's closing price and the intraday low of the following trading session. The closing percentage change denotes the ultimate percentage change recorded after the corresponding trading session's close.
October 19, 1987 - The Dow closes down 508 points, at the time the biggest one-day drop ever in the Dow’s history. November 21, 1995 - The Dow closes at 5,023.55, the first close above 5,000.
As the Dow has gotten steadily higher over the last several decades, larger point drops translate into smaller percentage drops.
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 ...
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 ...
Nvidia's $279 billion wipeout — the biggest in U.S. history — drags down global chip stocks ... in the biggest one-day market capitalization drop for a U.S. stock in history. The previous ...