The stock market crash of 1987 was the first financial crisis of global proportions, demonstrating how interconnected the financial markets had become through the advent of electronic trading.

While nobody knows what the rest of the year has in store for the stock market, longtime investor Warren Buffett has some ...

What Other Factors Contributed to the COVID-19 Stock Market Crash of 2020? The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic certainly sent the stock market into a tailspin, but other factors may have played ...

Excessive consumer debt and use of margin accounts inflated the pre-crash stock market bubble. The crash limited lending and consumer spending, which heightened job losses. Key findings are ...

How likely is it that the stock market will crash under President Trump? Here's what history says could happen, but also why that may be the wrong question to ask in the first place. To look at ...

For example, the market may go up 5%, linger, and come down 2% over a few days or weeks. A crash is a sudden and very sharp drop in stock prices, often on a single day or week. Sometimes a market ...