Biggest drops in stock market history

Last Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial average fell points, or 4.

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That is, until the following Monday. On the first day of trading the since Standard and Poor's downgraded U.

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Now, with two of the ten worst day in history of the Dow Jones occurring within a week of one another, murmurs of the U. Still, despite the severity of drops, neither were high enough to become the top drop ever.

That title goes to September 29, , when the Dow Jones fell a total of points, or 7 percent, during the depths of the financial crisis. And in terms of percentage decline, the U.

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