The FTSE100 fell by more than 10%, which is generally regarded as a ‘correction’. How does that compare with other ones recently?
| Dec 1999–March 2003 | -49.6% |
| Oct 2007–March 2009 | -47.5% |
| April 2010–June 2010 | -16.1% |
| Feb 2011–Sept 2011 | -16.7% |
| March 2012–May 2012 | -11.8% |
| April 2015-Feb 2016 | -21.9% |
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