Market crashes quiz: How much do you know about the darkest days in the stock market?

Market crashes can sometimes see years’ worth of investment gains wiped out in minutes – how closely have you been studying the history of the stock market?

Trader reacting to the 2008 financial crash
(Image credit: Spencer Platt via Alamy)

Very few people want the stock market to crash, potentially wiping out years worth of gains – but they do happen.

Since the turn of the millennium, investors have experienced numerous crashes, navigating through everything from pandemic-induced losses to a crisis that threatened the entire global financial system.

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