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The Dow Jones Industrial Average, 1928–1930. The "Roaring Twenties", the decade following World War I that led to the crash, [4] was a time of wealth and excess.Building on post-war optimism, rural Americans migrated to the cities in vast numbers throughout the decade with hopes of finding a more prosperous life in the ever-growing expansion of America's industrial sector.
Money supply decreased significantly between Black Tuesday, October 24, 1929, and the Bank Holiday in March 1933 when there were massive bank runs across the United States. The causes of the Great Depression in the early 20th century in the United States have been extensively discussed by economists and remain a matter of active debate. [1]
October 24: Wall Street Crash of 1929 begins. Stocks lose over 11% of their value upon the opening bell. October 25–27: Brief recovery on the market. October 29: 'Black Tuesday'. The New York Stock Exchange collapses, the Dow Jones closing down over 12%. October 30: one day recovery
Black Tuesday (October 29, 1929) was the highest trading volume day of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 on the New York Stock Exchange. Black Tuesday may also refer to: Black Tuesday, a 1954 film starring Edward G. Robinson; Black Tuesday (1912), on which a union conflict in New Zealand led to the death of Fred Evans; Black Tuesday (1931), on ...
After the Wall Street crash of 1929, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped from 381 to 198 over the course of two months, optimism persisted for some time. The stock market rose in early 1930, with the Dow returning to 294 (pre-depression levels) in April 1930, before steadily declining for years, to a low of 41 in 1932.
, "The Causes and Cures of Unemployment in the Great Depression", Journal of Interdisciplinary History (1989) 19(553–83) online; Kennedy, David. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 (1999), wide-ranging survey by leading scholar; online; Klein, Maury. Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929 (2001) by economic ...
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Black Monday: 19 Oct 1987 USA: Infamous stock market crash that represented the greatest one-day percentage decline in U.S. stock market history, culminating in a bear market after a more than 20% plunge in the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average. Among the primary causes of the chaos were program trading and illiquidity, both of which ...