Word: crashing
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HONG KONG: For what may well be a fleeting moment, all's well in the global marketplace. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index roared Wednesday, wiping out the losses of Tuesday's devastating crash and surging 18.82 percent ? its biggest gain ever. This came on the back of a similarly record-breaking day on Wall Street. "The world finally got what it wanted," TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec said. "Somebody to stand up and stop the dominoes...
...scariest banker appeared before the congressional Joint Economic Committee, he was positively jolly. "Provided the decline in financial markets does not cumulate," he said, "it is quite conceivable that a few years hence we will look back at this episode, as we now look back at the 1987 crash, as a salutary event in terms of its implications for the macroeconomy." Quite...
...market's best known barometer fell 554.26 points to 7,161.15, surpassing the 508-point Black Monday crash of 1987 as its biggest point drop ever...
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...YORK: So what was it? Not a crash. Not even a panic, really. But when a scare in Hong Kong wafts west and sends the usually buoyant Dow plummeting as much as 230 points from the opening bell, something significant may be afoot ? even if things did settle in at down 186.88 by closing time...