Worst Stock Market Crashes

10 worst stock market crashes in history

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• Herald Tribune

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• Range	1901 to 2000 (99 years)
  Scale	Yearly

• Rows	10
  Columns	8

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Crash	Date Started	Date Ended	Total Days	Starting DJIA	Ending DJIA	Total Loss	Comments
1901-1903	1901	1903	875	57.33	30.88	-46.1%	Assassination of President William McKinley; a severe drought causing alarm about US food supplies
1919-1921	1919	1921	660	119.62	63.9	-46.6%	Followed a post war boom, bursting of the first big tech bubble- the automobile sector (but after bottoming, this decade saw tremendous growth in the stock market and the economy, often called the roaring twenties)
1929	1929	1929	71	381.17	198.69	-47.9%	End of the roaring twenties, and kicked off the Great Depression
1906-1907	1906	1907	665	75.45	38.83	-48.5%	The "Panic of 1907" due to a credit crunch in New York, as well as gloom due to President Roosevelt's antitrust drive
1937-1938	1937	1938	386	194.4	98.95	-49.1%	Legacy of Great Depression, war scare and Wall street scandals
1930-1932	1930	1932	813	294.07	41.22	-86.0%	This is the grand daddy of them all. Investors lost 86% of their money over this 813 day beast. This market crash combined with the 1929 crash, makes up the Great Depression. If you had $1000 on 9/3/1929 (beginning of the 4th worst crash, it would have go
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Total Days see all graphs Max 999 Avg 651 Min 71 Sum 6,515 Std Dev 277.07

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