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"I've never seen a collapse like that, and I've only been doing this for 47 years," said Alfred E. Goldman, chief market strategist at A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc.
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The Shanghai market's correction wiped out $100 billion in value, but investors should have seen it coming.
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those private holdings are about as illiquid as can be - no selling into today's latest market panic. But you can bet they are just a tad nervous about the timing of their voracious appetites.
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First off, computer errors didn't cause the sell off -- they only delayed the reporting of the trades. If anything, these delays made the sell off look more orderly than it really was.
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In sum, when we have large declines on downside momentum that is extremely broad--as we had Tuesday--we tend to see followthrough to the downside over the short term.
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the single worst day for the Nasdaq was on the day of the crash: October 19, 1987. The Nasdaq fell 11.35% that day. (The Dow, of course, fell 22% that day.)
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Oh, boo hoo, people! You think this is crash? Please, this ain’t no crash. We’ve become so used to no volatility, we forgot what a normal market acts like...
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What do four really rich dudes do after the Dow takes a dip? Blackberry Shoot-Out!
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It’s not just China people, announced one blog half way though Tuesday’s global markets’ nosebleed. “It’s not China, it’s the economy (stupid!)â€, wrote Barry Ritholtz at the Big Picture.
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D'oh! It's hard out here for a bear...
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What is the role of blogs in reporting/commenting on fast breaking news events, what does this mean for the role of the mainstream media, is this a significant realignment, etc.
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Stockpickr scours the Internet every minute all day long, reading automatically the top 200 blogs we've fed it, and automatically indexes relevant blog posts for every portfolio and stock page on the site.
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Below we calculate how the intraday price chart should have looked based on the actual price changes of the Dow's 30 components. As the chart shows, the calculations began to go awry a little after 1:30 pm and continued until the computers finally caught
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One of the great features of a conspiracy theory is that it can explain anything, however convoluted.
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Tuesday's stock selloff took a toll on some of the nation's online brokerages, with many slowing to a crawl or presenting investors with error messages when they tried to make trades.
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Second Curve Capital, a $500 million hedge-fund firm run by Tiger Management alumnus and former top bank analyst Thomas Brown, has had a tough start to 2007 partly because of trouble in the subprime-lending sector.
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savvy futures traders that saw the divergence could have positioned themselves to profit from the inevitable meltdown in the spot market, and the subsequent run-up after the futures rallied ahead of the spot market. AND HAD ABOUT TWO HOURS TO DO IT.
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Yesterday’s steep stock market plunge of 416 points sent a warning of how vulnerable the market structure is to systems glitches and data backlogs when there are unexpected volume surges and rapid sell-offs in an electronic trading environment.