Stock market crash
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How he rescued Boscov's...that made it to Black Friday 2009. The odds were against the Reading company when it went bankrupt just weeks before last fall's stock market crash. There was, conventional wisdom said, no realistic way to rescue its thousands of... In this article: Bankruptcy, Charcoal, Stock market crash, Halloween, Volvo, Manhattan, and Philadelphia |
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Dawg Sports | 14 hours ago
The Georgia Bulldogs' Five Best Losses to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
...began the capital campaign to build a new stadium in Athens, which was dedicated two years later, in the same month and year as the stock market crash. Had the setback suffered in the City Too Busy To Hate not given Sanford the...
In this article: Georgia Tech, Georgia, Bulldogs, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Georgia Bulldogs, Mark Richt, Erk Russell, and Athens
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Omaha World-Herald | 1 day ago
N.P. theater celebrates 80 years
...Arts in North Platte turned 80 years old Tuesday. The Neville Center, formerly the Fox Theatre, opened just a few weeks after the stock market crash of 1929. NORTH PLATTE, Neb. - The Fox Theatre, now the Neville Center for the...
In this article: North Platte, Nebraska, The Fox, and Will Rogers
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BetaNews.Com | 1 day ago
Nearly half the money spent at US retail on desktop PCs goes to Apple
...20 days of lost [Windows PC] sales," Baker said. Additionally there is the recession, which force hit following the late-September 2008 stock market crash. "You're comparing the [iMac] launch month this year to the month last year when...
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Fool.com: The Motley Fool | 2 days ago
5 Stocks Approaching Greatness
...companies as less obvious sources for tomorrow's great buys, so let's see why a couple of them might merit your attention. A stock market crash that has the Dow trading at sharply lower values would indicate there are deep problems in our...
In this article: Barrick Gold, NYSE, India, Peter Schiff, Dow, and DuPont
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National Public Radio | 3 days ago
The Nation: Hovering In The Shadow Of Hoover
...they promise. Hoover was the Republican president from 1929 to 1933 and faced a far more dramatic unwinding of the economy after the 1929 stock market crash. In popular memory, he was blamed, somewhat unfairly, for causing the Great...
In this article: Barack Obama, Herbert Hoover, United States, Capitalism, Recession, Unemployment, FDR, and Larry Summers
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National Post | 3 days ago
Investors find solid foundation in apartments
...take 5% of profits and charges a 1.5% fee on the assets under management - in range with any mutual fund. "I remember after the last stock market crash there was a very large influx into the apartment building [market] because people threw...
In this article: Recession, Rate of return, Toronto, and Ontario
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scotsman.com - Business | 6 days ago
Long-term investors can ride out the stock market's darkest times
...looming, equity investors were having a rough time and a favourite blue-chip, Rolls-Royce, went belly up. Then came the horrendous stock market crash in October 1973. Yet 1969 was the year that the M&G Recovery fund was launched. Fund...
In this article: Recession, Ben Bernanke, UK, and US
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San Francisco Chronicle | 7 days ago
N.Y.'s scrappy City Opera forges a future
...operatic agenda than any New York or the United States had seen. But when his promised $60 million budget evaporated with the stock market crash, he decamped in frustration, leaving a mess. City Opera responded by dropping all of...
In this article: Gerard Mortier, Lincoln Center, Don Giovanni, New York City Opera, Columbia University, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Charles Wuorinen
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Colorado Springs Gazette | 7 days ago
County takes step to staunch pension fund bleeding
...plan that covers county employees and other government workers is reducing benefits and increasing contribution amounts. The 2008 stock market crash, combined with increased payouts, prompted the changes, said Howard Miller, executive...
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Philly.com | November 13, 2009
Survey says shoppers optimistic
...said they hoped to spend more than or the same as during last year's holidays compared with just 39 percent in 2008, after the fall stock market crash killed holiday sales. But there is a catch: A close reading of the survey shows that...
In this article: Wal-Mart, Legal age, Revenue, Recession, Kohl's Corp, and West Deptford
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A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market. Crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying economic factors. They often follow speculative stock market bubbles.
Stock market crashes are in fact 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 Price to Earnings ratios exceed long-term averages, and extensive use of margin debt and leverage by market participants.
There is no numerically specific definition of a crash but the term commonly applies to steep double-digit percentage losses in a stock market index over a period of several days. Crashes are often distinguished from bear markets by panic selling and abrupt, dramatic price declines. Bear markets are periods of declining stock market prices that are measured in months or years. While crashes are often associated with bear markets, they do not necessarily go hand in hand. The crash of 1987 for example did not lead to a bear market. Likewise, the Japanese Nikkei bear market of the 1990s occurred over several years without any notable crashes.
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