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mahatmakanejeeves

(62,104 posts)
Sat Mar 16, 2024, 10:10 AM Mar 2024

On this day, March 16, 2020, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had the largest point drop in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_16

• 2020 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second-largest percentage drop ever at 12.93%, an even greater crash than Black Monday (1929). This follows the U.S. Federal Reserve announcing that it will cut its target interest rate to 0–0.25%.

Thu Mar 16, 2023, 11:41 AM: On this day, March 16, 2020, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had the largest point drop in history.

Thu Mar 16, 2023, 11:39 AM: On this day, March 16, 2020, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had the largest point drop in history.
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On this day, March 16, 2020, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had the largest point drop in history. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 OP
4 years ago today we got the shutdown notification at work underpants Mar 2024 #1

underpants

(187,778 posts)
1. 4 years ago today we got the shutdown notification at work
Sat Mar 16, 2024, 10:14 AM
Mar 2024

at least we’d be working from home.

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