How to Single-Handedly cost people billions in less than 10 minutes

[Nick]

Today at around 2:47pm some dolt at Citi hit the b(illion) key instead of the m(illion) key when selling a stock. This caused the market to go into chaos for a six minute period, with the Dow falling almost 1000 points (biggest intra-day drop in history) before anyone realized what happened. I'm sure being on the trading floor would've been exciting.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idCNN...0100506?rpc=44

[BOX]

Sooo... My 401K has a blackout period from April 25th - May 10th because we are switching from Wystar to Prudential.

They were pretty much selling all of our stocks and purchasing the new ones somewhere inbetween.

Curious to see how much money I will actually have when I can activate my online account May 10th...

[XJLI]

[Arundlemcbrundle]

[H8PVMT]

i can't seem to find the Billion key on my keyboard

[Tom]

HFS

[Even]

lol

I thought this was only possible in cartoons.

[BOX]

lol

I thought this was only possible in cartoons.

and in "Live Free or Die hard"

[Pedro]

reminded me of office space

[jedc53]

They were pretty much selling all of our stocks and purchasing the new ones somewhere in between.This needs to stop,they helped cause the problems we have today.It is a very curious.

[rweaver138]

They were pretty much selling all of our stocks and purchasing the new ones somewhere in between.This needs to stop,they helped cause the problems we have today.It is a very curious.

go on, finish

[Nick]

They were pretty much selling all of our stocks and purchasing the new ones somewhere in between.This needs to stop,they helped cause the problems we have today.It is a very curious.

oh is that what happened?