A number of

stock market crash A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a major cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic selling and underlying economic factors. They often fol ...

es have occurred in the Hong Kong stock market since the 1960s: 1960s * Stock disaster in 1965 ( Canton Trust Bank run) * Stock disaster in 1967 ( 1967 Hong Kong riots) 1970s * Stock disaster in 1973 (

1973–1974 stock market crash The 1973–1974 stock market crash caused a bear market between January 1973 and December 1974. Affecting all the major stock markets in the world, particularly the United Kingdom, it was one of the worst stock market downturns since the Great D ...

) 1980s * Stock disaster in 1983 (Negotiation deadlock between

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

and

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Handover of Hong Kong The handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China was at midnight on 1 July 1997. This event ended 156 years of British rule in the former colony, which began in 1841. Hong Kong was established as a specia ...

) * Stock disaster in 1987 ( Black Monday) * Stock disaster in 1989 ( Tiananmen Square protests) 1990s * Bear market from 1997 to 1998 (

Asian financial crisis The 1997 Asian financial crisis gripped much of East and Southeast Asia during the late 1990s. The crisis began in Thailand in July 1997 before spreading to several other countries with a ripple effect, raising fears of a worldwide economic meltd ...

) 2000s * Stock disaster in 2000 (

Dot-com bubble The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000. This period of market growth coincided with the widespread adoption of the World Wide Web and the Interne ...

) * Stock disaster in 2003 (

SARS Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the virus SARS-CoV-1, the first identified strain of the SARS-related coronavirus. The first known cases occurred in November 2002, and the ...

crisis) * Stock disaster in 2007, 2008, 2009 (

Great Recession The Great Recession was a period of market decline in economies around the world that occurred from late 2007 to mid-2009.

) 2010s * Stock disaster in 2011 (

2011 United States debt-ceiling crisis In 2011, ongoing political debate in the United States Congress about the appropriate level Government spending in the United States, of government spending and its effect on the National debt of the United States, national debt and deficit re ...

) * Stock disaster in 2015, 2016 ( 2015–2016 Chinese stock market turbulence) and (

2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum The 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, commonly referred to as the EU referendum or the Brexit referendum, was a referendum that took place on 23 June 2016 in the United Kingdom (UK) and Gibraltar under the provisions o ...

)

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