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Flash crashes are frequently blamed by media on trades executed by black-box trading, combined with high-frequency trading, whose speed and interconnectedness can result in the loss and recovery of billions of dollars in a matter of minutes and seconds, but in reality occur because almost all participants have pulled their liquidity and ...
Also known as the 'Flash Crash of 1962'. [6] Brazilian Markets Crash of 1971 Jul 1971 Brazil: Lasting through the 1970s and early-1980s, this was the end of a boom that started in 1969, compounded by the 1970s energy crisis coupled with early 1980s Latin American debt crisis. [7] [8] [9] 1973–1974 stock market crash: Jan 1973 UK
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.
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The event coined the term "flash freeze" following the earlier "flash crash" on May 6, 2010. [3] [4] Throughout the freeze the Nasdaq composite remained at 3631.17. Following the reopening of the market it rose, closing at 3,638.71, 1.1% higher. [1] Shares of the Nasdaq exchange closed 3.42% down following the freeze. [5]
He cited the rapid energy consumption, computer crashes, poor performance on mobile devices, abysmal security, lack of touch support, and desire to avoid "a third party layer of software coming between the platform and the developer". He touched on the idea of Flash being "open", claiming "by almost any definition, Flash is a closed system".