The overnight dive in sterling to crisp 31-year lows has started recollections of different episodes where markets have moved significantly.
May 2001
A Lehman Brothers dealer inadvertently added two zeros to an arrangement on the London Stock Exchange, offering £300m rather than £3m of shares. The FTSE 100 fell more than 2%.
December 2005
A dealer inadvertently sold £1.6bn of shares in a Japanese organization worth only£50m in what was known as a "fat finger" blunder. Mizuho Securities, the broking arm of the Mizuho Financial Group, claimed up to the blunder.
May 2010
The Dow Jones dropped 998.5 focuses in 19 minutes before recuperating. Navinder Singh Sarao, 36, from Hounslow, west London, has been blamed for setting off the occasions and is anticipating trial, yet he says he is not to fault.
April 2013
An incorrect tweet that Barack Obama was harmed quickly thumped 143 focuses off the Dow Jones.
October 2014
Maverick exchanged for shares in 42 organizations worth 67.78tn yen (£380bn) – more than the measure of Sweden's economy – were scratched off in Tokyo, evading an emergency on money markets.
September 2015
Exchanging nine organizations, including HSBC and BP , was suspended on the London Stock Exchange taking after hypothesis that a fat-fingered merchant executed an exchange by misstep.
Sunday, October 9, 2016
Advertise disorder: six crashes in 16 years
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