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by Felix Salmon
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Oct 10 2008 10:23am EDT

Information Overload Datapoint of the Day

The Dow swung 780 points between its low point and high point just in the first hour of trading this morning. This is a crazy market, and it's overloading the information systems: here's a screencap I took just now, from the Yahoo Finance home page.

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I don't think there was any point this morning when the Dow was down 8% but the S&P 500 was flat. But what do I know, anything's possible in this market. Certainly I don't think you're going to see many days where the y-axis on those home page mini charts spans 2,000 Dow points. Makes today's fluctuations seem positively modest!

Update: Eddy Elfenbein notes that my screenshot was taken at 10:10am on 10/10. Which was the exact same minute, hour, day, and month of the market low in 2002. And the same day and month as the market low in 1990, too.

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