Explaining the market drop


By J VONG
  • Business
  • Saturday, 03 Mar 2007

The sharp fall in the equity market this week has caused anxiety to many investors.The events that triggered the downturn globally are explained in this article so thatinvestors can have a more informed view of the situation

Feb 27, 2007 must be one of those rare days in the past two decades when markets perform a sort of spectacular “bungee plunge”. This time it happened in China when the market plunged almost 8.9%, rebounded 3% on Wednesday and fell again by 2.6% on Thursday. It closed yesterday up 34.34 points or +1.23%. 

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