Historical Market Events

Black Thursday — the stock market lost nearly 25% in four days, wiping out millions of investors and triggering the Great Depression. The Dow Jones fell from a peak of 381 to just …

The largest single-day percentage crash in Dow Jones history — a 22.6% loss in a single trading session. Computer-driven program trading amplified panic selling across global marke…

The NASDAQ peaked at 5,048 on March 10, 2000, after years of speculative frenzy in internet companies. Companies with no revenue commanded billion-dollar valuations purely on the p…

The New York Stock Exchange reopened on September 17 after a six-day closure following the September 11 attacks. The Dow lost 684 points — 7.1% — on the first day of trading, the l…

Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy on September 15, 2008 — the largest bankruptcy in US history. The collapse triggered a global financial crisis, freezing credit markets and pus…

On May 6, 2010, the Dow Jones plunged nearly 1,000 points in minutes — losing and then recovering 9% in under an hour. High-frequency trading algorithms triggered a cascade of auto…

On August 8, 2011, European and US markets plunged as fears over European sovereign debt — particularly Italy and Spain — threatened the euro's survival. Standard & Poor's had down…

Chinese markets collapsed on August 24, 2015 — coined 'Black Monday' — as the Shanghai Composite fell 8.5% in a single session. Chinese retail investors, trading on margin, trigger…

After Bitcoin hit nearly $20,000 in December 2017, the crypto market began its brutal 2018 collapse starting in early January. By December 2018, Bitcoin had fallen 84% to around $3…

On March 16, 2020, the S&P 500 fell 12% in a single session — one of the worst days in market history — as COVID-19 lockdowns shuttered the global economy. The VIX fear index hit a…

On January 28, 2021, GameStop (GME) reached $483 per share — up from $20 at the start of the month — as Reddit's WallStreetBets forum coordinated a historic short squeeze against h…

On November 9, 2022, FTX — one of the world's largest crypto exchanges — collapsed in 72 hours as its FTT token imploded and $6 billion in withdrawals overwhelmed its reserves. Fou…