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  2. Wall Street crash of 1929 - Wikipedia

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    Some 4,000 banks and other lenders ultimately failed. Also, the uptick rule, [53] which allowed short selling only when the last tick in a stock's price was positive, was implemented after the 1929 market crash to prevent short sellers from driving the price of a stock down in a bear raid. [54]

  3. List of stock market crashes and bear markets - Wikipedia

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    2024 China stock market crash 2 Feb 2024 China: The Shanghai Composite Index plummeted from a high of 3703 in September 2021 to 2730 on February 2, 2024, marking a 26.3% decline ahead of the Chinese New Year. The government swiftly intervened in the stock market following the crash by prohibiting short selling and reshuffling government officials.

  4. The Great Crash, 1929 - Wikipedia

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    In the final six months of 1924, prices began to rise and continued through 1925, from 106 in May 1924 stock prices rose to 181 by December 1925. [7] After a couple of short downturns during 1926, prices began to increase in earnest throughout 1927, the year in which conventional wisdom saw the seeds of what became the Great Crash sown.

  5. Biggest stock market crashes in US history - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. What Caused the Stock Market Crash of 1929—And What ... - AOL

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  7. Experts Are Warning About a Stock Market Crash. Here's What ...

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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 COVID-19 crash in 2020, and the most recent downturn throughout 2022 ...

  8. Short (finance) - Wikipedia

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    For this reason, short selling probably is most often used as a hedge strategy to manage the risks of long investments. Many short sellers place a stop order with their stockbroker after selling a stock short—an order to the brokerage to cover the position if the price of the stock should rise to a certain level. This is to limit the loss and ...

  9. List of largest daily changes in the Dow Jones Industrial ...

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    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 ...