stock market crashes
Trading floor disasters
Stock market crashes are sudden, severe drops in stock prices across a broad market, typically occurring over days or weeks.
They often follow periods of speculation and trigger widespread panic selling.
Major crashes—1929, 1987, 2008—become historical reference points: People compared the volatility to the crash of '29.
The phrase implies systemic failure rather than ordinary market decline.
- Black TuesdayHistoric stock market crash
- tulip maniaIrrational asset price craze
- downturnEconomic decline period
- plungeSudden steep descent
- collapseSudden structural failure
bottom falls out · uncertainty · equities · Black Monday · sell-off · panic selling · herd behavior · bank runs · dead cat bounce · financial crisis · securities · margin calls · wiped out · asset bubbles · credit crunch · speculative trading · investment risk · systemic risk
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Extended financial uptrends
bull runs · irrational exuberance · Roaring Twenties · dot-com bubble · roaring twenties
stock market crasheseconomic booms
Periods of rapid prosperity
golden ages · prosperity · economic expansion · wealth creation · Roaring Twenties
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