689= Biggest Point Drop IN HISTORY (per CNN)

[LibraLiz1973]

Way to go Bushies!!

[FloridaGrl]

1. 732.63

[high density]

2. Percentages....

[Venceremos]

4. About 6.6%

Points are meaningless without percent.

[NJGeek]

3. http://mccain-crash.ytmnd.com/

http://mccain-crash.ytmnd.com/

[lisa58]

25. true...lol...too true!

[lisa58]

5. it's over 700

[napi21]

6. Final -738! n/t

[lisa58]

8. This can only hurt McCain's 'leadership'

[PerfectSage]

7. Big dump at the close -738.

[lisa58]

9. worst decline "ever"

[PaulaFarrell]

29. No, that was in 1929

the market had a one-day drop of 22%. So while this is bad, it is not the worst ever

[soothsayer]

10. Someone's making money. You can be sure!

[DevonRex]

11. 748.21 now.

[lisa58]

12. omg

[DevonRex]

14. omg is right. I don't even want to look at my account.

Whatever it is, it won't be good.

[lisa58]

18. I haven't looked for so long I forgot the password....

...it wasn't good - a different strategy needs to be implemented!

[Democrats_win]

13. biggest % drop: 24%(in 1914), Note, 7.1% in 2001. Not even biggest of decade.

Of course it's still dropping.

This article has a table to the right side showing record drops:
http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/27/markets/markets_0630/index.htm?postversion=2007022718

[MadBadger]

15. 770

[DevonRex]

16. 770.59. Why is it still going down after the close?

[DevonRex]

17. 777.68. Is this after hours trading or something?

[bluesxtreme]

19. Yes

We are in after hours trading from 4:00pm - 6:30pm ET

[Parker CA]

24. The drop to 777.68 is all of the contracts from today being finalized. Today's totals.

[thewiseguy]

26. NO

They are settling out the late contracts.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

20. In a day this chaotic it takes time to rectify the outstanding buy and sell orders

There was apparantly an unprecedented glut of sell orders at the close.

[lisa58]

21. How ugly will it be by morning?

[Pathwalker]

22. They're stilling "settling" all the trades made before the close.

Almost 2 Billion sells. The futures paint another bleak start for tomorrow.

[1corona4u]

23. No, it's just settling out.

[davepc]

27. no, it takes a while to settle out the contracts from late in the day.

[bluesxtreme]

28. Thanks for clarifying, I jumped the gun a little early there. What a confusing day!