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  2. Wall Street crash of 1929 - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Edgar Lawrence Smith - Wikipedia

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    Common Stocks As Long Term Investments, originally published 1924, reprinted (2003) by Kessinger Publishing, ISBN 0-7661-6073-4; Tides in the Affairs of Men. An Approach to the Appraisal of Economic Change, originally published 1940, reprinted (1989) by Fraser Publishing, ISBN 0-87034-090-5 (In this book, he sought to establish a connection between economic booms/busts and changes in the weather.)

  4. List of stock market crashes and bear markets - Wikipedia

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    Souk Al-Manakh stock market crash: Aug 1982 Kuwait: 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 ...

  5. List of largest daily changes in the Dow Jones Industrial ...

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    The New York Stock Exchange reopened that day following a nearly four-and-a-half-month closure since July 30, 1914, and the Dow in fact rose 4.4% that day (from 71.42 to 74.56). However, the apparent decline was due to a later 1916 revision of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which retroactively adjusted the values following the closure but ...

  6. Curbstone broker - Wikipedia

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    The New Board was an organization of curb-stone brokers established in 1836 in New York City to compete with the New York Stock and Exchange Board.The first local rival of the NYSE, the New Board emerged [4] among the rough and tumble conditions of the very speculative curb-side trading during the down-turn in the market in general. [5]

  7. The World's Wildest Market and 2 Television Milestones - AOL

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    On its first day in action, the Tokyo Stock Exchange termed it the The Nikkei 225 began its calculations on Sept. 7, 1950, with its "birthday" retroactively backdated to May 16, 1949.

  8. The market’s all-time highs come with a load of anxiety ...

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    The view from the summit doesn’t look so good. Clouds and vertigo have tempered the S&P 500's new all-time highs in the form of heavy tariff threats, brewing discontent from trading partners and ...

  9. What was Detroit like in the 1920s? These vintage ... - AOL

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    Going back a century in time, the Motor City was experiencing a period of significant growth and prosperity, largely due to the booming auto industry. What was Detroit like in the 1920s? These ...