Dow futures tumble as Wall Street preps for meltdown

CnbC ^ | 8/24/2015 | Jenny Cosgrove

[EBH]

U.S. stock index futures screamed lower, with Dow futures (Chicago Board of Trade: @DJ.1) tumbling more than 400 points, as fears surrounding the health of China's economy multiplied.

These concerns saw the benchmark Shanghai Composite (Shanghai Stock Exchange: .SSEC) index notch up its biggest one-day percentage loss since 2007 on Monday, closing down 8.5 percent .

Panic spread to European markets, with the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 (FTSE International: .FTEU3) as much as 3 percent in early London trading. All major bourses were off a similar amount. The index has shed over $1 trillion in market value in August so far.

[Chgogal]

550. 5999. 600 620. 630.

[who knows what evil?]

Was the drop in futures (850) a record?

[tcrlaf]

RULE 48 Trading curbs in effect, before the open.

[Chgogal]

820
945
975
924

[catfish1957]

-820.

[oleus]

Down 1100

[catfish1957]

My Yahoo ticker must be slower than your source.

[EBH]

It is here...

[plain talk]

shorts? Yes ... in short term there will be aholes profiting on others’ misery. I only deal with long term investing. If one is young then the bottom of this correction / crash is a buying opportunity.

[oleus]

I use the investors.com charts. It’s usually faster than the others in situations like this.

[Rusty0604]

Yes, the NYSE did. Dow down over 1000 now.

[Chgogal]

Varney

Recovering to 887

[Lazamataz]

[Original Lurker]

An you can rest assured those “gummint” retirees WILL get their pensions funded even if they tax you out of your home and rob your paycheck/savings.

[Chgogal]

920

897

823

834

[Chgogal]

Slight recovery. 786

Entities buying AAPL was down to 92 jumped up to 100

820

[catfish1957]

I laugh at shortys in general, and rub it in when I get nice divy checks, which get 15% tax treatment.

[Chgogal]

Oil $37

[Chgogal]

Circuit breaker 1162 market at 734

[John W]

So it never hit 1162 down?