Stock Crash Quotes

A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.

An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it.

At the height of the Enron mania, the company's market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0.

Global stocks bottomed in June 1921, but global economies didn't hit bottom for fully two more years.

Whenever I see a stock market explode, six to 12 months later you are in a full blown recovery.

Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble.

When herding behaviour among investors ramps up, a stock's or index's growth rate can increase faster than exponentially, leading to more herding. This positive feedback brings the system to a tipping point. About two-thirds of the time, a crash results.

Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the spring of 1927, to cut the rediscount rate. Benjamin Strong, Governor of the bank, was chief advocate of this unwise measure, which was taken largely at the behest of Montagu Norman of the Bank of England....At the time of the Banks action I warned of its consequences....I felt that sooner or later the market had to break.

I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.

For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.