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Counterpoint - generally larger companies should be less susceptible to the type of volatility that leads to the title, so I still think it's newsworthy. Even i
by amazingamazing 2y ago
Counterpoint - generally larger companies should be less susceptible to the type of volatility that leads to the title, so I still think it's newsworthy. Even if you were to change the title to largest percentage single-day loss amount among 3 trillion+ companies it would still be true (might even be true amount 2+ trillion as well)
- Retric 2y agoInflation adjusted is still limited to the largest companies. It’s simply using 2025 dollars for companies rather than comparing 1950 or whatever dollars vs 2025 dollars.
- amazingamazing 2y agobut inflation adjusted doesn't make any sense. things are less volatile now, there's high speed trading, better knowledge, easier trades, more automation, regulation, etc. it wouldn't make any sense. even now compared to 2020 there has been a huge change in amount of retail investors.
- Retric 2y agoThings aren’t less volatile in terms of extreme events. Look in depth at say the 2010 flash crash one of the all time great examples of very short term volatility. Similarly, longer term we still see huge shifts such as the COVID dip before all that money flooded the markets.
- amazingamazing 2y agoi'm talking about the strictly among the biggest companies
- Retric 2y agoI don’t have an intraday chart to look at, but DJIA which is just 30 large companies lost ~1.5 trillion in 2025 dollars in that flash crash. So on average each company lost ~50 billion over a few minutes only for them to recover almost as quickly. Though it wasn’t an even split due to differences in market cap etc and it’s not even a listing of the biggest companies. From what I recall multiple companies briefly took a 100+B hit, but again I don’t have the numbers on hand.