Was Monday’s stock market loss historically bad?

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average had its eighth-worst daily point loss in history Monday, dropping about 589 points.


Aug. 21, last Friday, was also a historically large loss. The 531-point drop that day was ninth-worst at the time, now falling to 10th after Monday’s even larger drop.

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