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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.
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 ...
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]
Back then, 90% of stock trading occurred on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). In 2004, Regulation NMS changed all that -- encouraging the emergence of new electronic exchanges like BATS and ...
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The first line of institutions to feel the effects were mortgage originators like New Century Financial and Countrywide Financial, which Bank of America regrettably acquired in 2008.
1983 Israel bank stock crisis; Japanese asset price bubble (1986–1992) Black Monday (1987) US stock market crash; Savings and loan crisis (1986–1995) failure of 1,043 out of the 3,234 S&L banks in the U.S.
Perhaps the most well-known stock market crash in history, the Crash of 1929 was the worst, and longest-lived crash we've had. From September 1929 through July 1932, the Dow Jones Industrial ...