Riots Erupt In Bangladesh After Stock Market Plunges 6.7%

Posted By on December 19, 2010

Oh please, they got to be kidding?  What are they protesting?  Did anyone protest when they made money in the stock market. NO!

After the stock market plunged on Sunday by 552 points or 6.72%, angry investors took to the streets, “threw bricks at police, marched in the streets shouting slogans, and staged a sit-down protest.”  

“The rising value of the stocks in recent years has attracted hundreds of thousands of small-scale or retail investors in Bangladesh, says the BBC’s Anbarasan Ethirajan in Dhaka. It became a popular investment for ordinary people, often providing higher returns than bank deposits and savings.

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