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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

No fat fingers

The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said in a joint report today that they found no evidence that mistaken orders, terrorism or computer sabotage led the drop, which briefly sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 998.5 points.

Just too many sell orders and not enough buy orders. That's how crashes happen.

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