stock crash
Wall Street disaster
A stock crash is a sudden, severe drop in stock prices across a market, typically occurring over days or hours rather than the gradual declines of a bear market.
Crashes often trigger panic selling, which accelerates the fall: The 1929 stock crash wiped out fortunes overnight.
Also called a market crash.
- marketVenue for trade
- panicUncontrollable sudden fear
- panic sellingFear-driven mass liquidation
- collapseSudden structural failure
- selloffMass asset liquidation
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- corporate crisesbankruptcy filing, scandal, lawsuit, layoffs, data breach
- economic crisisrecession, depression, collapse, downturn, contraction
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- economic historyIndustrial Revolution, trade routes, Great Depression, gold standard, Silk Road
- 1930sNew Deal, Hitler, Nazi Germany, Great Depression, appeasement
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stock crasheconomic boom
Sustained period of growth
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