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1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Gregorian calendar, the 1987th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 987th year of the 2nd millennium, the 87th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1980s decade.
A stock market or equity market or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers (a loose network of economic transactions, not a physical facility or discrete entity) of stocks (also called shares); these may include securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately.
Stocks can be categorized in various ways. One common way is by the country where the company is domiciled. For example, Nestlé and Novartis are domiciled in Switzerland, so they may be considered as part of the Swiss stock market, although their stock may also be traded at exchanges in other countries.
At the close of 2012, the size of the world stock market (total market capitalisation) was about US$55 trillion. By country, the largest market was the United States (about 34%), followed by Japan (about 6%) and the United Kingdom (about 6%). This went up more in 2013.
A stock exchange is a place or organization by which stock traders (people and companies) can trade stocks. Companies may want to get their stock listed on a stock exchange. Other stocks may be traded "over the counter", that is, through a dealer. A large company will usually have its stock listed on many exchanges across the world.
A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying economic factors. They often follow speculative stock market bubbles.
Stock market crashes are social phenomena where external economic events combine with crowd behavior and psychology in a positive feedback loop where selling by some market participants drives more market participants to sell. Generally speaking, crashes usually occur under the following conditions: a prolonged period of rising stock prices and excessive economic optimism, a market where P/E ratios exceed long-term averages, and extensive use of margin debt and leverage by market participants.
There is no numerically specific definition of a stock market crash but the term commonly applies to steep double-digit percentage losses in a stock market index over a period of several days. Crashes are often distinguished from bear markets by panic selling and abrupt, dramatic price declines. Bear markets are periods of declining stock market prices that are measured in months or years. While crashes are often associated with bear markets, they do not necessarily go hand in hand. The crash of 1987, for example, did not lead to a bear market. Likewise, the Japanese bear market of the 1990s occurred over several years without any notable crashes.
Black Monday is a term used to refer to certain Mondays when undesirable or turbulent events have occurred. It has been used in the following cases:
The fragile state of today’s world financial markets is not a new phenomenon. It wasn’t long ago that the world braced itself for another Great Depression. It was the defining moment of the 1980's. The New York Stock Exchange, the epicenter of the world financial markets and backbone of American capitalism, was under siege. On October 19th, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, the largest single day drop in the history of the stock market. But it was on Tuesday, October 20th that the world's financial markets came within 5 minutes of total disintegration. How was it averted? Was it a miracle? Manipulation? Or a lucky trade? Cancel Crash depicts the dramatic events that saved the world from financial anarchy and presents for the first time what actually happene...
CNN coverage of the Stock Market crash of October 19,1987.
An excerpt from the 6th October 1987 episode of Brookside, the TV soap-opera set in Liverpool,England which aired from 1982 until 2003.
In finance, Black Monday refers to Monday, October 19, 1987, when stock markets around the world crashed, shedding a huge value in a very short time. The crash began in Hong Kong and spread west to Europe, hitting the United States after other markets had already declined by a significant margin. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) dropped by 508 points to 1738.74 (22.61%). In Australia and New Zealand the 1987 crash is also referred to as Black Tuesday because of the timezone difference. The terms Black Monday and Black Tuesday are also applied to October 28 and 29, 1929, which occurred after Black Thursday on October 24, which started the Stock Market Crash of 1929. In 1986, the United States economy began shifting from a rapidly growing recovery to a slower growing expansion, whic...
Here (since it apparently hasn't been reposted yet) is an October 1987 episode of the Price Is Right. This episode is notable in that it was the last one aired with Bob Barker before he stopped coloring his hair. Will it have other moments to remember? No copyright infringement is intended. Commercials will be done in a separate video in the future.
Larry Carlton - San Francisco 1984
10/07/1987 Civic Auditorium - Buffalo, New York, USA (Audience) Where The Streets Have No Name, I Will Follow, Trip Through Your Wires, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, MLK, The Unforgettable Fire, Exit / Van Morrison's Gloria (snippet), In God's Country, Springhill Mining Disaster, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Help, Bad, October, New Year's Day, Pride (In The Name Of Love) encores: Bullet The Blue Sky, Running To Stand Still, With Or Without You, 40 Last time U2 cover Springhill Mining Disaster.
Chart rundown with Gary Davies. Also co-hosting is Steve Wright.
The fragile state of today’s world financial markets is not a new phenomenon. It wasn’t long ago that the world braced itself for another Great Depression. It was the defining moment of the 1980's. The New York Stock Exchange, the epicenter of the world financial markets and backbone of American capitalism, was under siege. On October 19th, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, the largest single day drop in the history of the stock market. But it was on Tuesday, October 20th that the world's financial markets came within 5 minutes of total disintegration. How was it averted? Was it a miracle? Manipulation? Or a lucky trade? Cancel Crash depicts the dramatic events that saved the world from financial anarchy and presents for the first time what actually happene...
CNN coverage of the Stock Market crash of October 19,1987.
An excerpt from the 6th October 1987 episode of Brookside, the TV soap-opera set in Liverpool,England which aired from 1982 until 2003.
In finance, Black Monday refers to Monday, October 19, 1987, when stock markets around the world crashed, shedding a huge value in a very short time. The crash began in Hong Kong and spread west to Europe, hitting the United States after other markets had already declined by a significant margin. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) dropped by 508 points to 1738.74 (22.61%). In Australia and New Zealand the 1987 crash is also referred to as Black Tuesday because of the timezone difference. The terms Black Monday and Black Tuesday are also applied to October 28 and 29, 1929, which occurred after Black Thursday on October 24, which started the Stock Market Crash of 1929. In 1986, the United States economy began shifting from a rapidly growing recovery to a slower growing expansion, whic...
Here (since it apparently hasn't been reposted yet) is an October 1987 episode of the Price Is Right. This episode is notable in that it was the last one aired with Bob Barker before he stopped coloring his hair. Will it have other moments to remember? No copyright infringement is intended. Commercials will be done in a separate video in the future.
Larry Carlton - San Francisco 1984
10/07/1987 Civic Auditorium - Buffalo, New York, USA (Audience) Where The Streets Have No Name, I Will Follow, Trip Through Your Wires, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, MLK, The Unforgettable Fire, Exit / Van Morrison's Gloria (snippet), In God's Country, Springhill Mining Disaster, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Help, Bad, October, New Year's Day, Pride (In The Name Of Love) encores: Bullet The Blue Sky, Running To Stand Still, With Or Without You, 40 Last time U2 cover Springhill Mining Disaster.
Chart rundown with Gary Davies. Also co-hosting is Steve Wright.
Generic @ WNC, Groningen NL 09 October 1987 (Audio)
D.N.P. @ WNC, Groningen NL 09 October 1987 (Audio)
Paul Daniels: Live at Halloween - 31st October 1987 with magic guest Eugene Burger. From The MagicWeek Video Archive http://www.magicweek.co.uk