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Investment in Texas speculation in 1901 reached approximately $235 million US (approximately $8.61 billion in present-day terms). [33] The level of oil speculation in Pennsylvania and other areas of the United States was quickly surpassed by the speculation in Texas.
The NASDAQ Composite index spiked in 2000 and then fell sharply as a result of the dot-com bubble. Quarterly U.S. venture capital investments, 1995–2017. The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000.
The Glass–Steagall Act passed in 1933 during the Great Depression in the United States provides another example; most of the Glass-Steagall provisions were repealed during the 1980s and 1990s. The Onion Futures Act bans the trading of futures contracts on onions in the United States, after speculators successfully cornered the market in the ...
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The 1990s economic boom in the United States was a major economic expansion that lasted between 1993 and 2001, coinciding with the economic policies of the Clinton administration. It began following the early 1990s recession during the presidency of George H.W. Bush and ended following the infamous dot-com crash in 2000.
The Bubble Act became law in Great Britain on June 9, 1720, near the height of one of the greatest and most outlandish speculative stock bubbles of all time. It was a watershed moment in English
Until this year, Sorrento Therapetics (NASDAQ:SRNE) was an obscure biotech operator. But this changed with the emergence with the novel coronavirus. Now SRNE stock has become one of the most ...
1994 — The United States hosts the FIFA World Cup, which is won by Brazil. 1995 — Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 and wounds 800. The bombing is the worst domestic terrorist incident in U.S. history, and the investigation results in the arrests of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols .