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Chapter 4: Crashes
Everybody hopes to earn a lot of
money in the short or long term
by investing in stocks. However,
the stock market does not favor the
investors all the time. A stock market
usually crashes when the public
starts to panic and loses confidence markets crash, a country’s economy
in investing in stocks. If large can be seen to crash as well.
number of investors sell their stocks, Some famous stock market crashes
the overall stock prices may go throughout human history were the
down. NASDAQ or NYSE will only Wall Street Crash of 1929, the Black
be able to prosper if large amount Monday of 1987, and the Stock
of investments are done. If stock Market Crash of 2008. Billions
