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In response to ""On the day President Kennedy was assassinated, theDow fell by about 3%, but prices recovered within a week. The effect on prices was largely confined" by Don Homer

it's sort of hard to compare markets across time. in the 60's, the average us stock was held for something like 7 years. by 1987, the period was 2...

years. by 2007, 7 months. today, it's probably a heck of a lot less. the landscape of trading is just totally different, for better or worse.

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