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	Stock market crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic loss of value of shares of stock in corporations.
		There was also a crash or "adjustment" on Monday October 19, 1987, known in financial circles as Black Monday, when the Dow Jones lost 22% of its value in one day, bringing to an end a five-year bull run.
		The stock market downturn of 2002 was part of a larger bear market and a Dot-com stock market bubble as well as Enron corruption that took the NASDAQ 75% from its highs and broader indices down 30%.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stock_market_crash (261 words)

	EH.Net Encyclopedia: The 1929 Stock Market Crash
		The fact that the stock market lost 90 percent of its value from 1929 to 1932 indicates that the market, at least using one criterion (actual performance of the market), was overvalued in 1929.
		In September 1929, the market value of one segment of the market, the public utility sector, should be based on existing fundamentals, and fundamentals seem to have changed considerably in October 1929.
		The October 19, 1929 issue of the Commercial and Financial Chronicle identified the main depressing influences on the market to be the indications of a recession in steel and the refusal of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities to allow Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston to split its stock.
	eh.net /encyclopedia/article/Bierman.Crash (8141 words)

	Independent Stock Review
		The stock market crash of 1929 came unexpected and ended the era of the golden 20ies.
		The almost unrestricted use of leverage and boundless optimism were significant factors that led to the meteoric rise of stocks as well as to their decline.
		The peak in the market was reached in early September 1929.
	www.stockreview.netfirms.com /crash_29.html (222 words)

	The Stock Market Crash In 1929
		The stock market quote, which you can find in the daily newspaper or online, is the most basic collection of numbers that providers update on a regular basis.
		Penny stocks (also called designated securities) have these specific qualities: they sell for less than $5, they are sold over the counter (but not on the NASDAQ), and their companies have 2 million dollars or less in net tangible assets.
		The Crash of 1929 - last time there was a large devaluation in the stock market, there followed Age to evaluate this 'correction'; the yardstick was the crash of October 1929.
	stocks.lookupinfos.com /stocks5/the-stock-market-crash-in-1929.html (439 words)

	Stock Market Crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The stock market was going through the roof and the United States seemed to have the formula for limitless prosperity.
		However, adding to the crash of '29 was the slowing economy.
		The crash of 1929 ended the seemingly infinite prosperity of the 1920s.
	www.angelfire.com /co/pscst/stock.html (179 words)

	Stock Market Crash of 1929 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The unregulated nature of the stock market was a major cause of the crash.
		An important factor of the crash of 1929 was the fact that the stock market was unregulated.
		The crash of the stock market in 1929 changed the face of history in the United States.
	www.byzantinecommunications.com /adamhoward/homework/highschool/crash.html (549 words)

	The Shepherd Investment Strategist, A Service of JAS MTS Inc.
		The 1920s saw a stock market boom in the US that came as the result of general optimism by businessmen and economists who believed that the newly created Federal Reserve would stabilize the economy and the pace of technological progress guaranteed rapidly rising living standards and ever expanding markets.
		This rapid expansion of credit resulted in a stock market bubble in the U.S. that hadn't been experienced for decades and was not to be repeated until the late 1990s.
		Stock prices reached levels that were so grossly overvalued that it made no sense to buy except for the reason that investors hoped to sell later at a higher price.
	www.jasmts.com /1929StockMarketCrash.html (1696 words)

	Black Thursday -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Black Thursday or the Wall Street Crash refers to October 24, 1929, the day when the (A stock exchange in New York) New York Stock Exchange crashed, leading eventually to the (The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s) Great Depression.
		The crash followed a (Click link for more info and facts about speculative) speculative boom which had taken hold in the late (The decade from 1920 to 1929) 1920s, which had led millions of Americans to invest heavily in the stock market.
		The crash dramatically worsened an already fragile economic situation, and was a major contributing factor to the (The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s) Great Depression.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bl/black_thursday.htm (435 words)

	Stock Market Crash of 1929 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The spectacular stock market crash of October 1929 was a time of reckoning for young and old, rich and poor.
		Because people could purchase stock using a combination of cash and credit, many who otherwise wouldn.t have had the funds to play the stock market game were able to do so.
		In March 1929, the global economy was rocked by a micro-scale crash, which caused a severe case of the jitters throughout the global community and offered a glimpse of what was to come.
	stock-market.superiorinvestor.net /stock-market-crash-of-1929.html (352 words)

	Stock Market Crash of 1929 -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		During the mid-to-late 1920s, the stock market in the United States underwent rapid expansion, reaching a peak at the end of August 1929.
		It is usually dated from the New York stock-market crash of October 1929, which choked the domestic and international...
		Roger Babson, an economist famous for predicting the stock market crash of 1929, founded the college in 1919.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9069750?tocId=9069750 (908 words)

	The Crash of 1929 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Economists used a yardstick from the Jazz Age to evaluate this 'correction'; the yardstick was the crash of October 1929.
		The crash of 1929 continues to be a fascinating example of panic in high finance and is still a staple of Economics 101.
		In the crash of 1987, it may be safe to say it was a day of frenzied selling, and arguably far short of true panic.
	www.btinternet.com /~dreklind/thecrash.htm (1932 words)

	Studyarea.com's Free Essay Site - "1929 Stock Market Crash" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These kinds of statements encouraged investors to believe that the market would continue to be strong, which could be one of the causes of the crash.
		It is also unlikely that the crash of the market would have been large enough to lead the US economy into the depression by itself and to sustain the downward spiral in business activity.
		Between October 1929 and February 1930 the interest rate was lowered from 6% to 4%, and the money supply increased immediately after the crash.
	essay.studyarea.com /essay/Economic_History/5.shtml (1483 words)

	Nasdaq Bear Market of 2000-2003 vs. 1929 Stock Market Crash
		A second observation is that the pace of this bear market has been flirting with the pace of the 1929 crash right from the beginning.
		The Nikkei bear market in Japan has been particularly devastating, and that market is still making new lows more than 11 years after the all time highs in 1989.
		The current bear market is now the worst bear market ever for the Nasdaq by a long shot, both in terms of the percentage drop and the length of time.
	lowrisk.com /nasdaq-1929.htm (834 words)

	Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Effects on the Economy
		Most of the country believed that everything was fine until the stock market crashed in October of 1929.
		The Stock Market Crash was the beginning of the Great Depression and it had a rippling affect throughout the economy and the nation.
		The stock market decline caused many banks to fail, which caused many businesses to fail, which caused unemployment to skyrocket, which caused consumers to have less purchasing power, which forced existing businesses to lower their prices, and so forth.
	web.olivet.edu /gradusers/kwatts1/stockcrasha.htm (528 words)

	Causes of Stock Market Crash in 1929
		There were a few things which may have led to causes of Stock Market Crash in 1929 such as the beginning of the Great Depression and a Stock Market Bubble similar to what recently occurred in the Nasdaq.
		From 1924, when the Dow was around 100, until the Dow peaked in 1929 around 375 it appreciated near 275% over a 5 1/2 year period before crashing in late 1929 and losing 87% of its value from late 1929 through 1932.
		Granted the causes of Stock Market Crash in 1929 may have been different than today however the charts of the Dow and Nasdaq look very similar.
	www.amateur-investors.com /Causes_of_Stock_Market_Crash_in_1929.htm (293 words)

	Famous First Bubbles?: Stock market crash 1929
		But from early 1930 to mid-1932 the stock market and its fundamental value followed the downward trend in economic activity and dividends, its level adjusted for an in increase in the risk premium.
		However, although surely bad news and although frequently mentioned as a major cause of the stock market crash and subsequent economic depression, the decision on the tariff came actually after the peak and the first panic in the stock market.
		Bierman, H., Jr., The causes of the 1929 stock market crash: A speculative orgy or a new era?
	www.few.eur.nl /few/people/smant/m-economics/crash1929.htm (1121 words)

	Stock Market Crash of 1929 -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		The U.S. stock market expanded rapidly in the late 1920s and reached a peak in August 1929, when prices began to decline while speculation increased.
		On October 18 the stock market began to fall precipitously.
		Banks and investment companies bought large blocks of stock to stem the panic, but on October 29, “Black Tuesday,” 16 million shares were traded and prices collapsed.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9379616 (921 words)

	Stock market crash (October 1929): historical context, economic impact and related links
		It was estimated that Canadian stocks lost a total value of $5 billion on paper in 1929.
		Despite the market crash, 1929 was a good year for banks, mines, manufacturing and construction in Canada.
		It is widely felt that the stock market collapse started a chain of events that plunged Canada and the Western world into the decade-long Great Depression, which ended only with the outbreak of the Second World War.
	canadianeconomy.gc.ca /english/economy/1929stock.html (441 words)

	Archive \| April 24, 2000 \| Revisiting the stock market crash of 1929
		We are accustomed to viewing the 1929 stock market crash and the depression that followed as an example of greedy capitalism run amuck.
		This was remedied, in a free market context and with occasional government intervention, by increasing interest rates paid by banks for gold deposits which would attract the necessary gold deposits and allow the bank to resume making loans to meet the needs of business.
		The result of the crash and depression was the bankruptcy of large segments of small and medium sized industry and personal holdings with a concentration of wealth in the hands of financial combines who were able to pick up the pieces after the smoke cleared.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0400crash29.htm (1318 words)

	Stock Market Crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The crash, combined with other negative factors in the U.S. and world economies, very decisively brings to an end the decade of the 1920s and hastens the Great Depression.
		Herbert Hoover once stated to the public that the stocks were overvalued and that speculation was hurting the economy.
		About a week before the stock market crash, many frantic calls were coming in from other countries causing a lot of worries.
	www.msad54.k12.me.us /MSAD54Pages/skow/CurrProjects/1920s/1920gr1/crash.html (726 words)

	Daphne Dispatch
		The best-known example of a market crash occurred in 1929.
		The idea was to buy a large quantity of stock which you expected to have a large increase in value - enough to cover the amount borrowed from the broker, plus profit.
		Back in 1929, however, stocks were going up because more and more people put money into the market, not because companies were necessarily doing well.
	www.ustrek.org /odyssey/semester2/022101/022101daphcrash.html (1148 words)

	1929 stock market crash
		Here we have the stock market history for the stock market is the 20th century.
		In the 20th century the stock market has returned to investors an average of 10.4% a year.
		Stock market crash, technical analysis and Elliott wave count predicting fall fr...
	www.investorz.net /1929_stock_market_crash.asp (608 words)

	The 1929 Stock Market Crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The latter two entities were financed primarily by preferred stock and debt (bonds), creating a leveraged structure with fixed financing charges which allowed the profits (dividends and capital gains) from the common stock they purchased to flow back up to the parent structure, magnifying the financial return significantly.
		In their case, a significant downturn (such as the October crash) caused margin calls which they could not meet which in turn resulted in a forced sale of their securities increasing the selling pressure on the market.
		As the market moved off of its peak, a correction began and by mid October it was down over 10% from its peak of 381.
	www.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/bates.htm (380 words)

	1929 Stock Market Crash, charts and stories of the 1987 Stock Market Crash
		In its place was a decidedly improved sentiment; the atmosphere had been cleared and a period of normalcy again reigned...
		The stock market broke severely on Monday, 10/28.
		It has been 10 years since the the 1987 Crash, and the story is just as dramatic as it was 10 years ago...
	www.lowrisk.com /crash/1929crash2.htm (323 words)

	Great American History Fact-Finder - -Stock Market Crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The crash was caused by the overspeculation of the 1920s; investors, taking risks in hopes of profits, bought their stock on margin with money they did not have.
		Banks and businesses had also invested in the stock market, and with the falling prices, the values of their investments plunged, causing them to fold.
		Although the crash did not "cause" the Great Depression, it was the opening event of the era.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/gahff/html/ff_173100_stockmarketc.htm (173 words)

	History of Wall Street and the Stock Markets -1929 Stock Market Crash
		There have been stories about the stock market "crash" of 1929 causing dozens of people to commit suicide by jumping out of windows and even causing the great world-wide depression of the 1930's.
		There is no evidence that anyone leapt to their death because of the market crash, although several did shoot themselves.
		It should be mentioned that as bad as that day was for the stock market, it got worse.
	www.atozinvestments.com /1929-stock-market-crash.html (520 words)

	H102 Lecture 18: The Crash and the Great Depression
		In 1929, Yale University economist Irving Fisher stated confidently: "The nation is marching along a permanently high plateau of prosperity." Five days later, the bottom dropped out of the stock market and ushered in the Great Depression, the worst economic downturn in American history.
		Confident that a given stock's value would rise, an investor put a down payment on the stock, expecting in a few months to pay off the balance of their initial investment while reaping a hefty profit.
		Within the first few hours the stock market was open, prices collapsed and wiped out all the financial gains of the previous year.
	us.history.wisc.edu /hist102/lectures/lecture18.html (2052 words)

	The First Measured Century: Timeline: Events - Stock Market Crash
		Throughout the twentieth century, most of the capital in the United States was represented by stocks.
		The stocks were bought and sold on stock exchanges, of which the most important was the New York Stock Exchange located on Wall Street in Manhattan.
		Many investors became convinced that stocks were a sure thing and borrowed heavily to invest more money in the market.
	www.pbs.org /fmc/timeline/estockmktcrash.htm (481 words)

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