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The stock market has been on fire over the past couple of years, and many investors have watched their portfolios soar. The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) is up by more than 52% since it bottomed out ...
In the last 25 years alone, the market has faced the dot-com bubble burst (which became one of the longest bear markets in S&P 500 history), the Great Recession, the COVID-19 crash in 2020, and ...
The stock market has been thriving over the past two years, but there's still plenty of uncertainty among investors. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York estimates that there's around a 29% chance ...
Stock price graph illustrating the 2020 stock market crash, showing a sharp drop in stock price, followed by a recovery. A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a major cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic selling and underlying economic ...
Financial risk management has been a concern of regulators and financial executives for a long time as well. Retrospective analysis has found some VaR-like concepts in this history. But VaR did not emerge as a distinct concept until the late 1980s. The triggering event was the stock market crash of 1987.
The Federal Reserve has expanded its balance sheet greatly through three quantitative easing periods since the financial crisis of 2007–2008.In September 2019, a spike in the overnight repo market interest rate caused the Federal Reserve to introduce a fourth round of quantitative easing; the balance sheet would expand parabolically following the stock market crash.
Just as often, though, a stock market crash is a magnified version of a correction. In this case, the decline begins with overvalued assets or a buildup of bad risk. For example in 2000 the tech ...
October 2, 2008: Stock market indices fell 4% as investors were nervous ahead of a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. [141] October 3, 2008: The House of Representatives passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. [142]