Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: List of stock market crashes


Related Topics

In the News (Tue 15 Dec 09)

  
  Stock market crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic loss of value of shares of stock in corporations.
Crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying economic factors.
The stock market downturn of 2002 was part of a larger bear market and a Dot-com stock market bubble as well as Enron corruption that took the NASDAQ 75% from its highs and broader indices down 30%.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stock_market_crash   (254 words)

  
 The Stock Market
All stock markets are merely "market places," derived from the Latin word "mercatus." The idea of a fixed place and time for buyers and sellers to assemble was one of the earliest ideas in the history of civilization.
Because of stock markets the thirteen young and struggling states were able to lay the foundation for the greatest and wealthiest empire on earth.
If stocks are bought when they are at their low levels, he need only take his profits when they reach their high, and with such a systematic investment program he will find his profits the rule, rather than the exception.
www.oldandsold.com /articles09/wallstreet-19.shtml   (9304 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Business | Market crashes through the ages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
After one of the most prolonged stock market booms in history, shares had become stuck in something of a summer rut, and whether out of boredom, or anxiety, or the curious herd instinct of trading psychology, the market turned sour in autumn.
The market continued to be a little frisky thereafter - especially in light of the later collapse of the Russian economy and the multi-billion dollar failure of the LTCM hedge fund.
On the face of it, the crash had many of the flashy attributes of a 1987 or a 1997 - a period of exuberance followed by an alarmingly rapid tumble.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/2131739.stm   (1125 words)

  
 Stock market crash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
There was also a crash or "adjustment" on Monday October 19, 1987, known in financial circles as Black Monday, when the Dow Jones lost 22% of its value in one day, bringing to an end a five-year bull marketbull run.
The stock market downturn of 2002 was part of a larger bear market that took the NASDAQ 75% from its highs and broader indices down 30%.
So few bargains can be scooped up in the stock market today that Tweedy, Browne Co. LLC, a noted value shop, has closed its doors to new investors at least temporarily.
www.infothis.com /find/Stock_market_crash   (447 words)

  
 CyclePro U.S. Stock Market Outlook
Homestake stock peaked in July while the general stock market peaked in September, so Homestake was already in a selloff of its own by the time stocks started their tumble.
As we discussed above, the stock market is extremely vulnerable to an extreme downturn (ie: a resumption of the decade-long bear market that began in 2000).
The stock and bonds will generate income while the market value of the stocks should rise as the general stock market recovers, further increasing the overall net worth of the strategy.
www.geocities.com /WallStreet/Exchange/9807/Charts/SP500/Outlook.htm   (13492 words)

  
 Stock Market Crashes Are Predictable, Major Decline Is Coming In 2003 And 2004, Says UCLA Physicist
Successfully predicting stock market swings is as futile as searching for the fountain of youth, some people believe.
Stock Market Swings Help Researchers Understand Extreme Events In Solar Wind (July 26, 2002) -- Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick have applied data analysis methods used to model stock market fluctuations, to explore changes in the solar wind (the sun's expanding atmosphere).
The U.S. stock market since 1996 has shown a "remarkable similarity" with Japan's Nikkei index from 1985 to 1992, which may reflect deeper similarities between the fundamentals of the two economies, Sornette and Zhou argue.
www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2002/12/021217073021.htm   (1273 words)

  
 Stock Market Prediction
The investment in all stocks should be a long-term investment, and that every stock purchased should have a history of raising their dividend every year.
Stock Market Prediction This model was trained on five years of weekly data ending April, 1998.
The stock market acts as though it is on the verge of doing the unthinkable.
www.fstockmarket.com /directory/stock-market-prediction.html   (2093 words)

  
 History Of Recent Stock Market Crashes Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Furthermore, the worst stock market crashes in history have almost all...
...that the worst effects of the recent stock market crash are behind the nation.....1973:A French Caravalle jet crashes in Morocco killing 106..
Stock market crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying...
www.stockmarketplanet.com /directory/History-Of-Recent-Stock-Market-Crashes.html   (745 words)

  
 FULL! U.S. Stock Market - Discussion 2,000+ Use New Forum!
Whether markets are efficient or inefficient, investors as a group must fall short of the market return by the amount of the costs they incur.' In other words, cut your costs to the quick and simply forget about everything else, like buying value or timing.
The principle problem is that unlike individual common stocks, ETFs can be sold short even in a declining market because they are exempt from the SEC rule that requires stocks to be sold short only on an uptick.
We are not of the opinion that a stock market crash is actually imminent but we are extremely concerned that as mechanical factors overtake the human element, the probabilities are rising for a downside move to get out of hand.
www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/investing/69251   (2975 words)

  
 Free stock market timing & List of all free timing on www
iming the stock market is one of the the most difficult tasks.
However, there are times when the risk of being in the market is greater due to the downside potential.
Those times include the crashes of 1929, 1940, 1987 and the bear markets of 1930-32, 1937, 1962, 1966, 1969, 1971, and 1973 to name a few.
www.pricepatternprediction.com /ga20035.htm   (543 words)

  
 Stock Market Symbol List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Stock Market Investment Advice: "The Two Most Profitable Secrets of the World's Greatest Investors" Investing today is not for the faint of heart.
We were either in on it, and loved the thrill; missed out on it entirely and can't let that happen again; or even worse, latched onto a tech rocket, rode it to the top, then held on until it crashed back down in a blaze...
The determining factor in purchasing Stock Market Symbol List is the total cost.
www.tradeinvesting.info /tin/Day-Trading/Stock-Market-Symbol-List.cfm   (409 words)

  
 Four-Dimensional Stock Market Structures and Cycles
If the analyst is to accurately project financial market cycles he must be able to answer the critical questions of when and where the face of the geometric structure will complete.
The top line is the model that was created in 1984 to project the stock market for the next several years.
For example, the top of the market in August, 1987 was one of the easiest turning points ever to identify.
www.cycle-trader.com /cycles2.htm   (1326 words)

  
 Citebase - Self-Organized Criticality and Stock Market Dynamics: an Empirical Study   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
We present an analysis of the time behavior of the $S\andP500$ (Standard and Poors) New York stock exchange index before and after the October 1987 market crash and identify precursory patterns as well as aftershock signatures and characteristic oscillations of relaxation.
We propose that large stock market crashes are analogous to critical points studied in statistical physics with log-periodic correction to scaling.
The study is mainly based on the German Stock Index (DAX) variation over the 1998 period which includes both, a spectacular boom and a large decline, in magnitude only comparable to the so-called...
citebase.eprints.org /cgi-bin/citations?id=oai:arXiv.org:cond-mat/0405257   (858 words)

  
 Stock Market - Historical Stock Market Charts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Stock market screening software. Free stock market movers report for a number of stock exchanges around the world. Starting point of technical analysis and stock research.
The stock market is up a pitiful 1% for 2004.
The stock market is a now a safe place to invest.
www.stockmarketdirectory.net /historicalstockmarketcharts   (1758 words)

  
 Citebase - Stock market crashes, Precursors and Replicas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
These observations are confirmed on other smaller crashes, and strengthen the view of the stockmarket as an example of a self-organizing cooperative system.
We analyze (a) the SandP 500 stock index for the 13-year period Jan 1984 to Dec 1996 and (b) the market...
We present a synthesis of all the available empirical evidence in the light of recent theoretical developments for the existence of characteristic log-periodic signatures of growing bubbles in a variety of markets including 8 unrelated crashes from 1929 to 1998 on stock markets as diverse as the...
citebase.eprints.org /cgi-bin/citations?archiveID=oai:arXiv.org:cond-mat/9510036   (1249 words)

  
 Stock Market   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Stock Market Crash Related To To Kill A Mockingbird
Stock market cartoons to put a smile on your face.
Participate in real-money futures markets as part of ongoing research in economics.
www.stocksnewsportal.com /stockmarket   (338 words)

  
 1987 Stock Market, WWW Stock Market com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Stock Market Crashes of 1929 and 1987 The stock market crash of 1929 occurred over a period of time that was the beginning of what is called the Great Depression. Everyone wanted to invest their money in the stock market. People thought that the stock market was the perfect place to make mone
TORONTO (CP) - Resource stocks pushed the Toronto stock market into the red Tuesday morning but New York moved higher as investors got some good news on inflation shortly before the U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to hike interest rates.
The record date for the stock dividend is August 22, 2005 and the payable date is September 30, 2005.
www.www-stockmarket.com /1987stockmarket   (726 words)

  
 American Stock Market   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Learn to invest in the stock market using a stock market simulator game.
Stocks, funds and derivatives from around the globe.
Fantasy blog stock game, where blog value is based on hits and links.
www.stocksnewsportal.com /americanstockmarket   (438 words)

  
 InvestSmart Stock Market Game
Self-reliant stock-pickers are expected to amass their own portfolios with scornful disregard for the recommended lists and canned advice of the big firms.
But if you think stocks are best left to those who follow them day in, day out and prefer to depend on a traditional broker's army of analysts, you might do better paying the tab for comfort.
Indeed, access and execution top the list of complaints against online firms filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission; while the number of online accounts doubled in 1998, gripes about online brokers soared by 330%.
investsmart.coe.uga.edu /10326/market_simulation/investing_guide.html   (931 words)

  
 Stock Market Crashes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
With the inception of the Internet, many people experienced and inexperienced in stock trading have begun signing up with online trading companies and buying and trading their own stocks.
Make sure you purchase stocks with a wide variety of risk, in a...
I am aware of the needs of people searching the net for information on Stock Market Crashes and I plan to create a directory of valuable links to Stock Market Crashes sites.
www.tradeinvesting.info /tin/Time-Share/Stock-Market-Crashes.cfm   (404 words)

  
 EconPapers: Speculative Behaviour, Regime-Switching, and Stock Market Crashes
A key innovative feature of our paper is that we use the models to show how their implications for stock market crashes may be tested using switching-regression econometrics.
We refer to the second model, in which there are regime switches in epxected dividend growth rates, as a model of switching fundamentals.
Our results suggest that both speculative behaviour and news about fundamentals may be needed to explain stock market crashes.
econpapers.repec.org /paper/wpawuwpem/9502003.htm   (211 words)

  
 Arianna Online Forums - The Bush Stock market crashes back through the 10,000 why?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The stock market has been tanking for a while now.
We are in record breaking deficit, and the stock market got a slight rise for a few months, if that was the result of the tax payback to all those needy rich folks.
I know you are a quitter but you could at least answer the question without all of your childish immature man-child remarks.
www.ariannaonline.com /forums/showthread.php?t=7363   (1417 words)

  
 Stock Market - London Stock Market   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Stock, Futures and FOREX End of Day Data in MetaStock Data and...
Stock Market Data daily eod equities index indices forex LSE...
When you join the London Stock Exchange's Main Market you will be part of one of the world's longest-established, best known and most liquid markets.
www.stock-market-info-guru.com /londonstockmarket   (566 words)

  
 Stock Market Crashes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Comparison Of The Stock Market Crash Of 1929 And 1987
The Stock Market Crash In The United States
Information about the stock market crash and how it lead to the Great Depression.
www.stockmarketfriends.com /stockmarketcrashes   (545 words)

  
 Indian Stock Market, WWW Stock Market com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
We are the leader in Live nse market tips, and the best in Intra-day Newsletter for indan stock market.We provide indian stock tips on the website as well as on SMS, to intra-day traders also investment newsletter for indian stock market to maximise the returns of investors and day traders.We also provide technical analysis education.
This portal is for free indian stock market tips and analysis, and has a discussion forum to give views, news and analysis on indian stocks market.
India's premier stock market, which has been hitting successive record highs, is on a roll and not even the worst-recorded floods to strike the nation's financial capital Mumbai is going to stop it, analysts say.
www.www-stockmarket.com /indianstockmarket   (1495 words)

  
 Complexity Digest 2005.26: The Geometry Of Crashes - A Measure Of The Dynamics Of Stock Market Crises
The Geometry Of Crashes - A Measure Of The Dynamics Of Stock Market Crises, arXiv
Using a stochastic geometry technique, we investigate the evolution of the market space and define a new measure for that purpose, which is a robust index of the dynamics of the market structure and provides information on the intensity and the sectoral impact of the crises.
Nine crashes between 1987 and 2001 are compared by looking at the way they modify the shape of the manifold that describes the SandP500 market space.
www.comdig.org /index.php?id_issue=2005.26   (5970 words)

  
 Stock Market - Selected Resources For Stock Market   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
What Is The History Of The Us Stock Market Rate Of Return
Dumitru Duduman Stock Market Crash While Bush Is In Office
very basic level, that's what the stock market is designed to do, and there was a time not too long ago when the IPO window was shut.
www.stockmarketplanet.com /stockmarket/stockmarket/index.php   (478 words)

  
 AS THE STOCK MARKET CRASHES, "DONALD TRUMP OF THE SOUTH"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
AS THE STOCK MARKET CRASHES, "DONALD TRUMP OF THE SOUTH"
In the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals, as well as all the others, John Palumbo proves that there are still plenty of ways to bring fl to the bottom line, in spite of the stock market's downward spiral.
For expert investors like Palumbo, corporate embezzlement has proven to be a money maker instead of a money taker.
www.featurerelease.com /92.htm   (488 words)

  
 A List Of Penny Stocks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Market Millionaires Stock Market Investment Forum - powered by...
Lists of over 1500 US and foreign marginable penny stocks.
NASDAQ smallcap stocks and reports their stock picks on an hourly basis.
www.stockmarketfriends.com /alistofpennystocks   (553 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Everyone's Guide to Online Stock Market Investing: The Definitive 12-day Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In 12 easy modules, you will discover all that you need to know to buy stocks at bargain prices, and then sell them at a profit.
Find the few Web sites that can really help you using the resource list included at the end of the guide.
Thus, many of the then useful websites listed in the book no longer exist or no longer have anything to do with investing.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0749436433   (613 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.