THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 15, 2000

* Stock Market crash of 2000
* The Dot.Com bubble bursts
* Largest single-day drop in history (to-date)

The front page has the dramatic 3-line, 3-column heading: "STOCK MARKET IN STEEP DROP AS WORRIED INVESTORS FLEE; NASDAQ HAS ITS WORST WEEK", with subhead: DOW IS DOWN 618 - A report of Inflation Ignites Sell-Off - Technology Rout", with considerable coverage and a supporting photo. The coverage continues on inside pages with additional photos and graphs. and some related photos, one showing Kevin Dyson running for the winning score. See images for details.
Complete in two section, some toning on the front page, otherwise in very good condition.

Background: The covered event represents the definitive "popping" of the dot-com bubble—the dramatic finale to the late-1990s tech boom.

On Friday, April 14, 2000, market psychology flipped instantly from irrational exuberance to absolute panic. Triggered by unexpected inflation data, investors frantically fled speculative tech stocks. The result was an unprecedented market bloodbath: the Nasdaq plummeted nearly 10% in a single day, cementing a 25.3% drop for the week—its worst weekly performance in history. Simultaneously, the Dow Jones suffered a 618-point plunge, its largest single-day point loss ever recorded at the time. Over $2 trillion in market wealth evaporated in a matter of days.

This crash fundamentally altered the economic landscape. It permanently exposed the flaw of valuing internet startups on hype rather than profit, bankrupting hundreds of companies and wiping out the life savings of millions of everyday day-traders. The trauma of this event ran so deep into the global financial system that it took the Nasdaq index a staggering 15 years to fully recover and surpass its pre-crash peak. It stands as one of the most significant financial collapses in modern history.