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Stock Market Crash: How to Prepare for a Market Pullback in Canada
By Iain Butler: Chief Investment Advisor, Motley Fool Canada Fool
Are you worried about a stock market crash?
As terrifying and discouraging as a market crash can be, it doesn’t have to knock the wind out of you: you can be prepared. How does that work? Let’s take a closer look at stock market crashes and find out how you can prepare for a market downturn.
What is a Stock Market Crash?
A stock market crash is a sharp decline in the value of stocks, one that happens over a single day or week.
https://www.afinalwarning.com/515514.html (Natural News) The chief executive of the Ford Motor Company, one of America’s largest automakers, says he believes the company will lose half of its second-quarter production due to the ongoing semiconductor chip shortage.
During the company’s first-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, April 28, Ford CEO Jim Farley proudly announced that the company was able to beat Wall Street’s expectations regarding its earnings. But he couched this statement by saying that it now expects to lose around 50 percent of its planned second-quarter production.
Ford’s production for the first quarter already dipped by 17 percent due to a fire in the factory of Ford’s chip supplier, Renesas Electronics in Japan. (Related: Fire at Japanese chipmaker adds to collapsing microchip supply lines for automakers.)
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In the days between October 14 and October 19, 1987, major indexes of market valuation in the United States dropped 30 percent or more. On October 19, 1987, a date that subsequently became known as Black Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 508 points, losing 22.6% of its total value. The S&P 500 dropped 20.4%, falling from 282.7 to 225.06. This was the greatest loss Wall Street had ever suffered on a single day.
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Facts on File, an authoritative source of current-events information for professional research and education, the 1987 crash marked the end of a five-year bull market that had seen the Dow rise from 776 points in August 1982 to a high of 2,722.42 points in August 1987. Unlike what hapopened in 1929, however, the market rallied immediately after the crash, posting a record one-day gain o
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No one was more boastful than Donald Trump. He bragged about everything from his wealth to his popularity to his political acumen to his IQ and even to his penis size. His most frequent boast was to take responsibility every time the stock market set a new record (and ignoring the drops, of course), and he ominously warned voters that if Biden defeated him “there will be a Market Crash the likes of which has not been seen before!”