RESEARCH SUBJECT #40538

Events
The Stock Market Crashing
Sudden market decline. Trading halts engaged.
RESEARCH NOTES
A sharp, broad fall in share prices over hours or days, as in 1929, 1987 and 2008, which exchanges now slow with automatic trading halts. On October 19, 1987, the Dow lost more than a fifth of its value in a single day.
Would You Goon?
0 = ABSOLUTELY NOT · 10 = UNCONDITIONALLY
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