[r00fus]

Just a nitpick but

s/decimated/devastated/

Decimated means 10% death rate (usually as an brutal lesson). Did stocks lose 10% or did 10% of stocks just get liquidated?

[justin_oaks]

Just a nitpick but you're making an etymological fallacy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymological_fallacy

The word "decimate" is explicitly mentioned in the article above.