"Black Monday" could be repeated in the US today.

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange closed trading with a 13% drop, repeating the anti-record of 1997, in Taiwan the fall was a record 9.7%, in China the market fell by almost 14%, the giant Alibaba lost as much as 19%

European markets are also slowly creeping down, they were joined by the Netherlands with a 7% drop.

"Black Monday" is the name given to the day on which the largest fall of the US market in history occurred, affecting the entire world - world markets lost up to 50% of their value