AP Twitter hack causes panic on Wall Street “flash crash”

“Wall Street collided with social media on Tuesday, when a false tweet from a trusted news organization sent the US stock market into freefall.”

And so the marketplace and economic man are supposed to be rational beings while also prone to “flash crash”.

More from the Guardian article

(Tues 23rd April 2013)

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