The crisis: A timeline
A shocking series of events that forever changed the financial markets.
![The events that broke Wall Street](https://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/galleries/2008/news/0809/gallery.week_that_broke_wall_street/images/nyse_trading_floor_081003e.jpg)
Traders at the New York Stock Exchange closely monitor stocks on Oct. 3, when Congress passed the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Seemingly every day for about month, a different legendary financial company teetered on collapse. Stocks recorded some of their most dramatic drops in history, including the Dow's epic 778-point drop on Sept. 29 -- the biggest ever single-day slide. And lawmakers worked overtime in an effort to stem off a failure of the financial system.
The solution: a series of unprecedented and expensive bailouts to save systemically significant institutions from failing and to loosen the tight grip on credit.
Here's a look at how those events unfolded.
NEXT: Sunday, Sept. 14 - Trouble brews
- A year ago
- Sun. 9/14
- Mon. 9/15
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- Mon. 9/22
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- Wed. 9/24
- Thurs. 9/25
- Fri. 9/26
- Sat. 9/27
- Sun. 9/28
- Mon. 9/29
- Tues. 9/30
- Wed. 10/1
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