Stock market crash
Summary
A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying economic factors. They often follow speculative stock market bubbles.Stock market crashes are social phenomena where external economic events combine with crowd behavior and psychology in a positive feedback loop where selling by some market participants drives more market participants to sell. Generally speaking, crashes usually occur under the following conditions: a prolonged period of rising stock prices and excessive economic optimism, a market where P/E ratios exceed long-term averages, and extensive use of margin debt and leverage by market participants.There is no numerically specific definition of a stock market crash but the term commonly applies to steep double-digit percentage losses in a stock market index over a period of several days.
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Dow 36,000, just around the corner (again)
Back in 1999, two American Enterprise Institute guys, James K. Glassman and Kevin Hassett, wrote a book called Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting from the Coming Rise in the Stock Market Almost instantly infamous--a stock crash began within months--it would become synonymous with crazed bubble-era thinking. Dow 36,000 became the poster child of the kind of dubious,.
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A personal story: Black Monday, the day one daily newspaper editor got their first lesson in New Media
Today is the 25th anniversary of Black Monday, the day the stock market crashed, with the Dow fell over 500 points. For many investors, Black Monday was their first experience with an actual stock panic. But, for me, that day taught me a lot about news editors – at least as they worked then – and why newsrooms need to change in a dramatic way.
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Salmon: Journalists shouldn’t be blamed for failing to expose banks before financial crisis
“There’s a reason why the journalism comes out after, you know, the 2000 stock market crash, after the 2008 financial crisis — because at that point we… Read more.
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Please Help Us Figure Out How To Solve The Inequality Problem...
The biggest story in the United States economy, beyond its general crappiness, is the extreme inequality that has developed over the past three decades.
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One Data Point Suggests Startup Funding Is Still Hot
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Netflix's Stock Crash In Context
After hitting a high of $291 in July, Netflix (NFLX) has fallen to $113, a drop of more than 60%.
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AOL's Stock Crashes Again After Arianna Dismisses Rumors Of Yahoo Merger
AOL's long-suffering shareholders were recently thrown a lifeline when word arrived that the company was in talks with private-equity firms.
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Sorry, Folks, All Those 400-Point Stock Market Crashes Don't Mean We're Near The Bottom
My recent commentary on four percent and greater declines in the S&P 500 triggered an unusual amount of feedback, much of which has centered on two questions: 1) why pick four percent? and 2) what would a longer look back show us?.
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DOW Ends Craziest Week In History Down 300 Points -- What's Next???
Last Thursday, after a couple of weeks of steady but relatively normal declines, the Dow suddenly tanked 500 points. Then, after a modest recovery on Friday, it fell 600 points. Then it soared 400 points. Then it plunged 500 points. Then it blasted off to another 400 point gain. And, today, after another 100+ point gain, it appears poised to end the week down, but within a couple of hundred points from where it started the week.
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Apple Overtakes Exxon as World's Most Valuable Company
Following yesterday’s stock market crash and today’s rally, Apple has surpassed Exxon as the most valuable company in the world, TechCrunch reports.
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