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The Misclick That Moved Markets: How a Single Fat-Fingered Trade Wiped $1 Trillion in 36 Minutes
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On May 6, 2010, the US stock market lost nearly a trillion dollars in value in under forty minutes — then mysteriously recovered almost all of it before the closing bell. The culprit wasn't a hacker, a foreign government, or even a rogue algorithm doing something unexpected; it was a perfectly ordinary trading system doing exactly what it was designed to do, just at the absolute worst moment.…