What spooks the stock market in October?
Monday, October 5, 2009 - 17:56
in Mathematics & Economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- October ushers in the fourth quarter, falling leaves, football and in some, now infamous, years, financial meltdowns. Is the tenth month of the year more prone to stock market crashes than others? Economics professor Stephen Williamson says there's little evidence to support that the next big crash will occur this month just because the last three major crashes happened in October.
