market crash
Stock prices plummet
A market crash is a sudden, severe drop in stock prices or asset values, typically occurring over days or hours rather than weeks.
Crashes are marked by panic selling and can trigger broader economic downturns.
The term applies to stock markets, housing markets, and cryptocurrency: The 1929 crash preceded the Great Depression.
Everyone's worried about a crypto market crash.
- stockGoods kept for sale
- panicUncontrollable sudden fear
- panic sellingFear-driven mass liquidation
- bank runPanicked mass withdrawal
- collapseSudden structural failure
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- Market Volatilityprice spikes, boom and bust, panic selling, bubble, price drop
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- declinesdrop, decline, downtrend, downturn, downfall
- economic crisisrecession, depression, collapse, downturn, contraction
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Sustained price increase
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Sustained period of growth
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