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Nov. 25, 2008: News that an additional $800 billion in federal funds is available to increase financial-system liquidity fails to offset news of a 0.5% GDP decline. The Dow closes at 8,479.47, up ...
[25] That month, September 2008, would see record drops in the Dow, including a 778-point drop to 10,365.45 that was the worst since Black Monday of the 1987 stock market crash [26] and was followed by a loss of thousands of points over the next two months, standing at 8,046 on November 17 and including a 9% plunge in the S&P on December 1 ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 8,149.09 with a drop of 679.95 points (7.70%). Oil fell below $50 a barrel in New York Trading. [ 6 ] The General Accounting Office released a report that claims that the Oversight of the Troubled Assets Relief Program requires additional actions to ensure "integrity, accountability, and transparency".
December 1, 2008: The NBER announced the US was in a recession and had been since December 2007. The Dow tumbled 679.95 points or 7.8% on the news. [165] [89] December 6, 2008: The 2008 Greek riots began, sparked in part by economic conditions in the country. [citation needed] December 16, 2008: The federal funds rate was lowered to zero ...
Alamy Five years ago this month, the U.S. financial system began a downward spiral that would bring it to the brink of collapse. Stock markets plunged as the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the ...
Actually only one of these three stocks (Apple Inc., Amazon.com and Netflix) delivered positive returns during the 2008 crash and found a place in our list. 10 Stocks That Went Up During 2008 ...
On Thursday November 13, the Dow Jones Industrial Average marked another dramatic session, with the index (opening at 8,282.66) that after a mixed start tumbled again below the 8,000 mark (to a low of 7,965.42) but then reversed the trend and gained more than 900 points (fourth largest daily swing ever) in less than three hours closing at 8,835 ...
Three years ago, on March 9, 2009, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX: ^DJI) and the S&P 500 (INDEX: ^IXIC) both had a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day. Not only did both indexes dip ...