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23 May 2020

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Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, A Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History Liam Vaughan

William Collins, pp.272, 20

On 6 May 2010 the eurozone crisis was tearing through the continent. Greece was bankrupt, and it looked as though Spain or Italy could be next. Markets were on edge, volatility was high — and then something very strange happened.

The S&P 500, one of the US’s main stock indexes, began to crash.

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