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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.
Examples of flash crashes that have occurred: May 6, 2010, flash crash; April 23, 2013, flash crash; Frankenshock, [3] or Flash Crash Swiss Franc on January 15, 2015 [4] Flash Crash of the British Pound on October 6, 2016 [5] Flash Crash of Japanese Yen on January 2, 2019 [6] [7] Flash Crash of European Stock Markets on May 2, 2022. [8] [9]
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 ...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may further tinker with the algorithms that it uses to stop trading during large price swings in stocks, SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro said Monday.
The "flash crash" of May 6 was a day of reckoning of sorts for investors in exchange-traded funds. "ETFs are relatively new, and not as simple and straightforward as we have been lulled to believe ...
1999 Greek stock market crash; 2007–2008 financial crisis; 2008–2014 Spanish financial crisis; 2008–2009 Belgian financial crisis; 2010 flash crash; 2010–2014 Portuguese financial crisis; 2011 Bangladesh share market scam; 2015–2016 Chinese stock market turbulence; 2015–2016 stock market selloff; Economic impact of the Russian ...
The Washington Post Co. (WPO) became the first U.S. company to have trading of its stock halted by Securities and Exchange Commission circuit breakers enacted following the May 6 market flash crash.