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But, we begin with a breath taking day for investors caused partially by a trader with fat fingers. that trader is said to have accidently hit the wro computer key and in just seconds stocks took a terrifying dive. the major indices lost up to 9% of their value, a crazy day caused, in part, by a mistake. human error. here is how it went down. the dow was already off a couple of hundred points, thanks to instability in greece before the sell off in the 2:00 hour. you can see it quickly recovered ...

Christine romans is minding your business. was it a trading error? >> there was an error somewhere, you had stocks trading at pennies at being at 40 and $50 a day. thats not rational. you have the stock market very weak and putting in one of the worst days weve seen in a year before this happened. then suddenly at 2:45, boom, something happened, proctor and gamable shares and accenture fell off the cliff. we have never in history seen such a big one-day point decline. then just as rapidly it bou...