Market Fluctuations (2)
Capital is the tools needed to produce things of value out of raw materials. This high volume tell us that the extremely huge number of investors left the market, yet we have some group of other investors who was buying in that period at small bargain price – some traders decided to satisfy demands of those who were leaving the stock market in panic.
Despite fears of a repeat of the 1930s Depression, the market rallied immediately after the crash, posting a record one-day gain of 102.27 the very next day and 186.64 points on Thursday October 22. It took only two years for the Dow to recover completely; by September 1989, the market had regained all of the value it had lost in the 1987 crash.
In 2008, the failure of some financial institutions in the United States lead to a global crisis that resulted in the failures of …