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continuing with brooke baldwin. >> dont go far. i want to talk to you about that piece in mississippi. hello to you. good afternoon. im brooke baldwin. lets begin where drew sort of left off there. you know what, you need a scorecard today. or maybe a traffic cop to keep up with the presidential hopefuls. im giving you a map. des moines, iowa, ground zero ahead of the iowa straw poll. des moines, iowa, flooded with republican candidates. plus, yep, sarah palin. she turned up, arrived t...

Basically factor this into the shares and the nuclear opening just minutes ago at the top of the hour there. its down 2.1% now, as more of the shares are traded. there was a flood of sell orders and big names talking sony, talking about nissan, honda, toyota that it was not fully impacted and now seeing the nikkei down about 4% and losses in new zealand and australia the first two markets to open on monday. they were down, but now the nikkei down 4% here and were also seeing the dollar taking a ...

Keep it -- >> theres a problem. >> did it happen? >> yes, that happened. >> and thats why 15 minutes didnt become 26 minutes? >> heres what happened and why well bring the electronic on the floor of the exchange. the machines that were operating. what was lost in the 16 minutes what was lost is investor confidence. im an investor, i lost $2 million across on the last mess we had, you think im crazy? you think im going to step in again. heres what happened. when the markets started down, a lot of...

Performance since a year. i want to talk quickly about what the nasdaq says about why the violent move in five or six minutes at 2:45, they say there were no compute issues on their ends. but they are voluntarily canceling trades between 2:40 and 3:00 p.m. if you think you really made a fortune, you probably didnt. they will be going through with a fine tooth comb to find where on the trade bladder something went wrong and what trades will not be counted. >> all right. as you talk about the comp...

The dow sank nearly 1,000 point in less than half an hour. losing nearly 10% of its value. it later recovered to close down 348 points but that was still the biggest single day loss since february of last year. to one still this morning sure exactly what happened. one possibility being investigated is that a single trader accidentally placed an order to sell 16 billion stocks instead of 16 million shares. that was enough to spark sell orders across the market creating a so-called flash crash. la...

348 points. but that was still the biggest loss since february of last year. while no one is sure exactly what happened, one possibility being investigated is that a single trader accidentally placed an order to sell 16 billion shares instead of 16 million. that was enough to spark sell orders across the market creating a so-called flash crash. last night on "nightly news" cnbcs maria bartiromo explained what happened. >> fear and panic did he haefin returned to wall street today. it started in ...

At the worst point the dow sank nearly 1,000 point in less than 30 minutes, losing 10% of its value. later recovered to close down 348 points but that was still the biggest single day loss since february of last year. no one is sure exactly what happened. but one possibility they investigated is that a single trader accidentally placed an order to sell 16 billion shares instead of 16 million. that apparently enough to spark sell orders across the market, creating a so-called flash crash. last ni...

Is down 22 or 33%. 22 bucks or 33%, that drives the dow down 150 points. that in turn triggers what you said, bob, programmed trading for sell orders. >> yes. >> suddenly p & g on the next handful of trades comes back, helping the dow up 130, 140 points and triggers the opposite, more buying. >> which shows you the emotion. jerry was talking about the emotion out there and thats evident in what is going on today. the lessons we learned in march of last year and in 2008 was that these guys, they ...

Them so drastically yesterday, and why we see such volatility in the market today. again, a lot of people would rather have seen this happen over the course of ten days, a couple of weeks, then such dramatic gyrations. >> and again, could you remind us as to why market experts believe there was such a significant drop? >> at 3:00 p.m. yesterday? >> yes. >> reporter: there are lots of theories out there. one theory is the algorithmic trading. another is the derivative that makes up a small part o...

Basically factor this into the shares and the nuclear opening just minutes ago at the top of the hour there. its down 2.1% now, as more of the shares are traded. there was a flood of sell orders and big names talking sony, talking about nissan, honda, toyota that it was not fully impacted and now seeing the nikkei down about 4% and losses in new zealand and australia the first two markets to open on monday. they were down, but now the nikkei down 4% here and were also seeing the dollar taking a ...