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Saturday, October 14, 2017

Risk and the 1987 stock market crash



This coming week marks the 30th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash. On 'Black Monday', the world's equity markets were in chaos.

Following this, circuit breakers were introduced in an attempt to prevent such dramatic one-day moves. These were further strengthened following the May 2010 'Flash Crash'.