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Archive of entries posted on 19th October 2017

Today, 30 years on from 1987’s great crash

Writers like to write about anniversaries, even gruesome ones. No one is suggesting that 1987 will happen today. Here’s Bob Pisani of CNBC on 1987: October 19, 1987. That was the day the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 508 points, or 22.6 percent, the biggest one-day decline in the history of the stock market. To […]