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Old 10-06-2008, 11:33 AM  
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Originally Posted by emjay View Post
4 years ago.

UK down 8% today. 10% is a crash.
There's no numerical value that determines "a crash" but many consecutive days of large drops. Keep this up all week, and thurs/fri yeah it'll be a crash.

In 12 months, all markets have been declining, resulting in wiping 25% off FTSE, 30% off DJ, 32% off CAC40, 50% off Nasdaq.

Brown, Sarko and tits didn't help with their procrastinating at the weekend

Quite interesting though that all indices now have internal breaks for stopping an all-out crash in a single day. All that doe is prolong the downward spiral keeping things as simply a "credit crunch" thereby stopping any type of rally!

1987 here we come, but hey every cloud has a silver lining.... pick stocks in stuff that are relatively immune from market dropoffs and invest, cos they're all at 2-4 year lows. It'll all come back if the company can stay afloat.
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