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Re:Wall St Tumbles over 2% by ceejayoz on Monday September 20, 2021 @03:16PM (#28597615)
They describe different things. 10% down in a day would be a crash (and a correction). 10% down in a month or two is a correction, without the crash part. There's no formal definition of how fast something has to be to be considered a crash, but 2% ain't it.
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Re:Wall St Tumbles over 2% by dheera on Monday September 20, 2021 @04:28PM (#28598573)
Personally I love to always call it a "crash" because it's very in-your-face to hedge funds because they think 2% is a lot of money to them.

While I'm sitting here rejoicing over the black friday sale on some great stock buys.

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