flash crash

The flash crash, however, illustrates how much the markets have changed.

The flash-crash report provides some vindication for high-frequency trading firms, which had been widely blamed for the mayhem that day.

I don't think the flash crash was the only driver, but it's hard to ignore that correlation and it begins to look like causation.

The search is still on for a specific trigger for what has become known as the "flash crash" .

But in the post "flash crash" world, there is a chance regulators could be a bit more sensitive to exchange tie-ups.

And we got a hint of what could happen last May, during the flash crash, but we have no idea what other things might happen.

We wonder, though, if last Thursday's flash crash might have piqued his interest again.

The SEC and Commodities Futures Trading Commission expect to issue a final report on the flash crash within a few months.

But this week, officials told Congress they were still investigating the causes of the so-called flash crash.

Ever since the May Flash-Crash, investors have been cautious about the stock market in general.

Ever since the so-called "flash crash" on May 6, policymakers have fretted about the state of equity markets.

At the height of the debt-ceiling uncertainty on Friday, a handful of mortgage real-estate investment trusts suffered a mini flash crash.

An investigation found that a poorly executed algorithmic trade was at the root of the "flash crash" .

But the renewed market volatility following the 'flash crash' of May 6 proved too much to bear.

A second was the recent flash crash.

But some forces behind the flash crash seem beyond the reach of regulators.

All three market measures previously entered correction territory on May 7 after the 'flash crash' of the previous day.

This "flash crash" prompted the authorities to cancel a bunch of trades made at unusual prices.

It only lasted minutes, but the flash crash will have consequences that last for years.

Could the flash crash reveal a problem that goes beyond high- frequency traders?

And just to make matters worse, the memory of the May 6 "flash crash" haunts the markets.

And, as the "flash crash" of May 6 showed, the activity can be highly disruptive.

Days later, mystery still shrouds stock market's 'flash crash'

One factor was subdued capital-markets activity, caused by Europe's debt crisis and the stockmarket "flash crash" in May.

The world received a glimpse of the possibilities in May, when just one computer system at one non-HFT company caused the "flash crash" .

European debt crisis; BP (NYSE: BP ) oil spill; flash crash.

But secondly, Kaufman's letter touches on issues wider than the flash crash.

So if all else fails with the circuit breakers and high frequency overhaul, we can always pray a flash crash never happens again.

The event at issue has been called by some the "flash crash. "

In the months after the flash crash, theSEC announced a variety of measures to prevent anything like it from occurringagain.

flash crash: The mystery of the financial markets this year: a May 6 market drop of almost 1, 000 points.

Flash Crash 3 takes Dow down 4, 000 points in minutes.