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The benchmark stock market index on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange fell by 9.3%. [265] The MERVAL on the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange fell 9.5% to 19.5% on the week. [266] 12 March was the second time, following 9 March drop, that the 7%-drop circuit breaker was triggered since being implemented in 2013. [236]
List of largest daily changes in the Nasdaq Composite. 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.
The major European stock market indexes all fell over 10%. [27] On March 16, 2020, after it became clear that a recession was inevitable, the DJIA dropped 12.93%, or 2,997 points, the largest point drop since Black Monday (1987), surpassing the drop in the prior week, the Nasdaq Composite dropped 12.32%, and the S&P 500 Index dropped 11.98%. [28]
Following the second week of turbulence, on 6 March, stock markets worldwide closed down (although the Dow Jones Industrial Average, NASDAQ Composite, and S&P 500 closed up on the week), [18] [19] [20] while the yields on 10-year and 30-year U.S. Treasury securities fell to new record lows under 0.7% and 1.26% respectively. [21]
Last week, shares of Tesla plunged 16% — marking its worst week since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 — over concerns about Musk's management of Twitter and sales of Tesla stock.
The stock market rebounded thereafter and ended the year flat. [25] [26] [27] 2015–16 Chinese stock market crash: 12 Jun 2015 China: The Chinese stock market crashed in June and continued falling in July and August. In January 2016, the market also experienced a steep sell-off which set off a global rout.
The 2020 stock market crash was a major and sudden global stock market crash that began on 20 February 2020 and ended on 7 April. This market crash was due to the sudden outbreak of the global pandemic, COVID-19. The crash ended with a new deal that had a positive impact on the market. [42]
However, the one-day crash of Black Monday, October 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 22.6%, as well as Black Monday of March 16, 2020 (−12.9%), were worse in percentage terms than any single day of the 1929 crash (although the combined 25% decline of October 28–29, 1929, was larger than that of October 19, 1987, and ...