What is an insurance write-off? How does an insurer decide if a car is a write-off? What are the insurance write-off categories? Category A. Category B. Category C. Category D. Write-off values are relative. What if I don't agree with the decision to write-off my car? If my car is a write-off, can I buy it back? What if the write-off valuation won't cover my car finance?
Stock prices can drop for various reasons, and sometimes the decline is caused by a combination of factors. Those can include newly released earnings reports, negative company news, and changes in implicit value, explicit value and supply and demand for the stock.
Over the last hundred years, there have been several large stock market crashes that have plagued the American financial system. For example, during the Great Depression, stock prices dropped to 10% of their previous highs and during the crash of 1987, the market fell more than 20% in one day. Due to the way stocks are traded, investors can lose quite a bit of money if they don't understand how fluctuating share prices affect their wealth.