[lbo-talk] Penny stocks

Max B. Sawicky sawicky at verizon.net
Fri May 7 09:59:17 PDT 2010


The computers did what, exactly?

And how did they come to sell or buy a $40 stock for a penny?

-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Claxton Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 12:13 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org; LBO-Talk Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Penny stocks

At 08:47 AM 5/7/2010, Max Sawicky wrote:


>For at least a moment yesterday, the stock of Accenture -- a $25b
>company -- plunged to a penny a share.
>Now it's back up to $40 or so. Some weirdness going on.

The computers did it:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/07/obama-authorities-investigating-w ild-market-swing/



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