Editing Stock market crash (section)

===COVID-19 pandemic (2020)===
{{Main|2020 stock market crash}}{{further|2020 Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war}}
[[File:Indices S&P BSE 500 (2015 to 2020).png|thumb|220x220px|Indices: S&P [[BSE 500]] (January 2015 to November 2020). Blue highlight reflects COVID-19 period (taken to start from March 2020 as per first lockdown).|alt=]]
[[File:Indices S&P BSE 500 Period Jan - 2015 to May - 2020.png|right|thumb|400x400px|Indices: S&P BSE 500 (Period Jan – 2015 to May – 2020). Open, High, Low, Close visible. Fall depicted in black. Rise depicted in white.]]
During the week of February 24–28, 2020, stock markets dropped as the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] spread globally. The FTSE 100 dropped 13%, while the DJIA and S&P 500 Index dropped 11–12% in the biggest downward weekly drop since the [[2008 financial crisis]].

On Monday, March 9, 2020, after the launch of the [[2020 Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war]], the FTSE and other major European stock market indices fell by nearly 8%. Asian markets fell sharply and the S&P 500 Index dropped 7.60%.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51796806 | title=Global shares plunge in worst day since financial crisis |work=[[BBC News]] |date=March 9, 2020 }}</ref> The Italian FTSE MIB fell 2,323.98 points, or 11.17%.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2020/03/09/coronavirus-milan-bourse-plunges-10.8-spread-soars_c24efa69-9cd3-447b-bc88-26aff2b7ed0e.html |title=Coronavirus: Milan bourse plunges, spread soars | work=[[Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata]] | date=9 March 2020}}</ref>

On March 12, 2020, a day after US President [[Donald Trump]] announced a travel ban from Europe, stock prices again fell sharply. The DJIA declined 9.99% – the largest daily decline since [[Black Monday (1987)]] – despite the [[Federal Reserve]] announcing it would inject $1.5 trillion into money markets.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/03/12/markets-stocks-today-coronavirus/ |title=U.S. stock market suffers worst crash since 1987, as Americans wake up to a new normal of life | first1=David J. | last1=Lynch | first2=Thomas | last2=Heath | first3=Taylor | last3=Telford | first4=Heather | last4=Long | newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] | date=March 12, 2020 }}</ref> The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq each dropped by approximately 9.5%. The major European stock market indexes all fell over 10%.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2020/mar/12/stock-markets-tumble-trump-europe-travel-ban-ecb-christine-lagarde-business-live | title=Wall Street and FTSE 100 plunge on worst day since 1987 – as it happened | first1=Graeme | last1=Wearden | first2=Jasper | last2=Jolly (now) | work=[[The Guardian]] | date=March 12, 2020}}</ref>

On March 16, 2020, after it became clear that a [[recession]] was inevitable, the DJIA dropped 12.93%, or 2,997 points, the largest point drop since [[Black Monday (1987)]], surpassing the drop in the prior week, the Nasdaq Composite dropped 12.32%, and the S&P 500 Index dropped 11.98%.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/15/traders-await-futures-open-after-fed-cuts-rates-launches-easing-program.html |title=Dow drops nearly 3,000 points, as coronavirus collapse continues; worst day since '87 | last=Imbert | first=Fred |work=[[CNBC]] | date=March 15, 2020}}</ref>

By the end of May 2020, the stock market indices briefly recovered to their levels at the end of February 2020.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}

In June 2020 the Nasdaq surpassed its pre-crash high followed by the S&P 500 in August and the Dow in November.