Dow Snafu a Blip Compared With Other Tech Mishaps

(May 6) -- Next time the stock market starts to crash, traders might be advised to try a simple control-alt-delete. That's because the latest reports indicate today's epic, nearly 1,000-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average was, in fact, only partly caused by the turmoil roiling through debt-stricken Greece. The rest was the result of a glitch in the algorithms-based trading supercomputers used by the world's top financial firms.

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