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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 most of those losses but at one point the dow was below the 10,000 mark, down close to 1,000 points ...

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. that's not rational. you have the stock market very weak and putting in one of the worst days we've 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 bounced back. everyone was trying to figure out what is happening the a lot of people told me that th...