Tag: stock market
By Jeralyn, Section Economy
Posted on Thu May 06, 2010 at 08:45:03 PM EST
Tags: stock market (all tags)
Posted on Thu May 06, 2010 at 08:45:03 PM EST
Tags: stock market (all tags)
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped a whopping 1,000 points at one pointtoday, it's biggest intra-day drop ever. It later rebounded somewhat so that the final drop was 347.80 points.
Algorhithms may be the culprit.
High-speed trading, which uses sophisticated computer algorithms based on specific scenarios to automate transactions at speeds in the millionths of a second, now accounts for about 60 percent of U.S. equity volume.
"The potential for giant high-speed computers to generate false trades and create market chaos reared its head again today," Senator Edward Kaufman said in a statement.
Or, it might have been circuit breakers. Bloomberg has more here.
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