It raised fears about this being a repeat of the stock market crash of 1929 and a harbinger of an economic depression to follow.

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The prospect of a sweeping trade-protection bill in the fall of 1929 triggered the stock market crash.

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It is a year since the stock market crash of 2008 and the beginning of the Great Recession.

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If there really is no one in the locomotive to stop the Euro train from crashing then there will be a period of giant upheaval and stock market crash.

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In the early 1990s, a stock and property market crash led to years of very low economic growth and high unemployment, and it became known as the "lost decade".

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His parents lost everything in the stock market crash of 1929, then became custodians at a Salt Lake apartment complex owned by a wealthy local Mormon family, the Coveys.

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Many may have lost a significant portion of their savings in the stock market crash of 2008.

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The most famous was May's"flash crash, " during which the stock market lost 600 points in a matter of minutes.

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