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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 ...
Accounting fraud. An auditor was murdered, an adviser committed suicide. The largest collapse in Hong Kong history. Texaco: United States: 13 April 1987: Oil: After a legal battle with Pennzoil, whereby it was found to owe a debt of $10.5 bn, Texaco went into bankruptcy. It was later resurrected and taken over by Chevron. Qintex: Australia ...
Major stock market indices rose 5–7%, marking the bottom of the stock market decline. [182] March 12, 2009: Stock market indices in the U.S. rose another 4% after Bank of America said it was profitable in January and February and would likely not need more government funding. Bernie Madoff was convicted. [183]
Mega insurer American International Group is best known for its spectacular collapse in 2008 as the company used a government bailout to plug a financial products-induced wound. Despite receiving ...
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 ...
Earlier this week, the Treasury recently announced plans to sell a huge portion of its AIG stake, dumping $18 billion of AIG stock before underwriter options -- roughly the size of Facebook's IPO.
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 ...
In the 2012 letter to AIG shareholders, CEO Robert Benmosche asserted that 2012 was "a year that I know will go down in AIG history as a pivotal year." It's yet another bold statement from the ...