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Subprime Collapse to Global Financial Meltdown: Timeline

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The following is a timeline of events that led to the current global financial crisis.

March 5, 2007: HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe's biggest bank by market value, says the U.S. subprime market is ``unstable'' and now in a ``downturn,'' making it the main drag on company earnings.