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Dow Jones Plunge Fueled by Overwhelmed Computers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sure-always-blame-the-it-guys dept.

cloudscout writes "The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped over 400 points today. While there were various valid financial reasons for such a decline, some of the blame is being placed on computer systems that couldn't keep up with the abnormally high volume at the New York Stock Exchange and the resulting tremor as they switched over to a backup system."

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  1. NYSE: Microsoft (R) powered (R) by hxnwix · · Score: 5, Funny

    It looks like somebody forgot to change the gigantic SQL batteries embedded in the side of the NYSE building...

  2. See... by ZonkerWilliam · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is what happens when I sell one lousy share of google!