The Stock Market: The Stock Market Crash in the Stock Market

U.S. stock market futures dropped Thursday as investors showed little appetite for extending the previous session’s modest gains, with earnings from General Motors Co. and the latest figures on weekly jobless claims to come.Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 48 points to 11770 and Standard & Poor’s 500 index futures were down 6.50 [...]

Some so called experts are telling us the 2008 stock market crash is nothing like the 1929 crash, but the number of similarities are startling. If you have been following the stock market closely for the past several months, you will recall that the market had taken a big hit in early January and then [...]

US stock markets have suffered their worst week on record following another torrid day of trading despite growing hopes that the government could step in to guarantee bank deposits and lending between financial institutions. The Dow Jones fell 456.3 to 8122.2 leading to a 21pc fall over the week after the index on Thursday suffered [...]

US stock markets have suffered their worst week on record following another torrid day of trading despite growing hopes that the government could step in to guarantee bank deposits and lending between financial institutions.

General Motors insisted yesterday that bankruptcy was not an option, despite facing what it described as “unprecedented challenges”. Fears have been growing that the biggest US carmakers, GM and Ford, are close to calamity as the crisis in the financial markets has bled into the real economy. Shares in the pair were back under pressure [...]