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March ASX200 volatility worse than GFC

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... in March exceed other extreme world events including the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Black Monday on 8 August 2011 which followed the credit rating downgrade of US sovereign debt, the US and Chinese flash market crashes of ...

No time to look back

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... bottomed out months later on 10 February 1989," Lee said. "In 1987 there was little signs of volatility until the Black Monday fall. "It was not uncommon to see moves of 5% either up or down after such an event, but in 1988 after a month moves normalised ...

Coronavirus is an investment opportunity: Fidelity

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
COVID-19, despite its obvious health hazards and hysteria-spooked market volatility, can actually be an opportunity for investors, enabling them to purchase the market's darlings at discounted prices. That's according to Paul Taylor, portfolio ...

Chief economist update: This time is different

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
... market crash committed suicide after losing a reported $500,000..." These are just two samples of the aftermath of "Black Monday", 19 October 1987, when the Dow crashed by 508 points on that day. Please pardon moi if the Dow's 1175-point dive stirred ...

The Fed's aware of building imbalances

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... later, the market tumbled: "Black Thursday, October 24, when the market dropped by 11%, followed four days later by Black Monday, when it fell another 13%; and the next day, Black Tuesday, when it lost 12% more (Wikipedia) and the Great Depression followed." ...

October h(a)unting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... between they may be - is the month of spectacular crashes. There was October 1929 - when the Dow dropped by 12.8% on Black Monday, the 28th and then proceeded to lose around 90% of its value at the bottom nearly three years later (July 1932). There was ...

Is this the crisis moment?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... the norm these days. You want to be spooked, think back to October 1987 when the S&P 500 index plunged by 20.4% on Black Monday. That was scary. There should have been greater dumping of stock holdings last night especially because not only was there ...

"If it becomes necessary" time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... heard all these before? So why doesn't the Dow just give us one big dive - such as the 22.6% one-day drop on that Black Monday of October 1987 - and put you, I and Irene out of our misery? The answer my friends is because the more equities drop, the ...

Black swans test strength of portfolio construction

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... quoted in the seminar showed that the 1987 stock market crash, where the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 23% on Black Monday, was still the biggest black swan daily decline in the US. The non-profit CFA Institute has more than 100,000 members world-wide ...

Treading on treacherous territory

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
... has been statistically observed to be the cruellest for stock markets. Forget the "Great Crash" of October 1929 or "Black Monday" in October 1987, October's historical average return is 0.3 per cent. And September? Since 1929, Wall Street has returned ...
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