• 1 click of a mouse in Kansas caused the stock market to dip 600 points

• $4.1B the amount in futures the mutual fund was trying to sell that fateful day
• 75k the number of contracts the company dropped onto the market
• 20 the number of minutes it took for them to flood everything source

• 18.8% increase in the trade deficit, to $49.9 billion

• 2.5% decrease in the Dow because of this news
• 2.8% fall in the S&P 500 for the same reason
• 3% dip in the Nasdaq today; sigh source

• 2.9% the increase in the Dow Jones Industrial today
• 3.1% the leap in the super-exciting S&P 500 today
• 3.1% the leap in the super-techie Nasdaq today source

• 40% the amount the stock increased on its IPO day (it was a great day)
• 3.85% the amount the NASDAQ as a whole fell today (it was a bad day)

Elon Musk scored big, too

• $70M the amount that Musk put into Tesla Motors all by himself – he was broke before today
• $650Mthe amount that Musk’s share in the company is worth after today – not bad, duder
• $15M the amount Musk took out to ensure his Tony Stark-like life can continue source

• 9.8% increase on the London stock exchange today source

• what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two massive government-backed mortgage companies, are trading so lo that they’re about to be delisted.
• when Expect both stocks to get removed from the New York Stock Exchange by July 8. They’ll trade in the the over-the-counter market instead. source

• 15% the amount BP shares fell in the U.S. yesterday
• 11% the amount BP shares fell in the U.K. today
• 1997 the last time BP’s stock was this low source

• » Why the freefall? Well, besides the general “Did you see the oil spill?” response to that question, BP was told to pay workers it laid off as a result of the government’s moratorium on offshore drilling. Which means they’re on the hook for millions of dollars they weren’t before.

• 25% decline in BP’s stock since the oil saga began source

• 7.9% dip in Dow’s value in the merry month of May source

• -2.6% the decline of the Dow Jones industrial this morning
• -2.8% the decline of the S&P 500 in early trading this morning
• -2.9% the decline of the NASDAQ; all have had cruddy months source