Are classic market segments getting more or less suspect?
*Financial Times, by Michael Mackenzie & Tony Barber, May 6, 2010:
''Markets hit amid European debt fears
Financial markets weighed down by fears about the European debt crisis
fluctuated in wild trading on Thursday, with US stock prices losing
almost 9 per cent, before reclaiming most of their losses by day's end.
The speed of the descent in stock prices and other markets fuelled
suspicion that a computer trading program error had occurred as traders
wrestled with the anxiety that Greece could become the first eurozone
country to default on its debt.
The S&P 500 had already fallen 4 per cent to the key level of
1,200, when the market suddenly plunged and sent the benchmark down as
much as 8.6 per cent to 1,065.79. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell
by 998.50 points, or 9.2 per cent.
At one point the price of Procter & Gamble, a blue chip consumer
product giant, seen as a safe haven stock, fell 37 per cent in a matter
of minutes.''
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