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Black Monday

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Black Monday Oct. 19, 1987, in U.S. history, day of financial panic. The Dow Jones Average fell 508.32 points, a drop of 22.6%, the largest since 1914. The point decline as well as the volume, 604.33 million shares, exceeded previous records. Among the possible causes were investors' anxiety about U.S. international trade and federal deficits, U.S. criticism of West Germany's economic policies, the cascading effect of the automatic computerized selling of stocks, and the drop in stock-index futures triggered by computerized trading programs. Stocks throughout the world joined the slide. By... Read more
Black Monday
Black Monday On “Black Monday,” 27 May 1935, the Supreme Court handed down three separate...x2010;and‐buggy definition of interstate commerce.” Black Monday had two major consequences. First, it forced President Roosevelt... Read more
Black Monday
Black Monday Either of the two Mondays on which the two largest stock...Wall Street crash occurred on Monday, 28 October 1929, when the...Industrial Average fell by 13%. On Monday, 19 October 1987, the Dow...Average lost 23%. In both cases Black Monday in the USA triggered ... Read more

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