A fall of 20 per cent or more in the index of a leading stock...

9the Crash … and Beyond It is common to think of the Roaring Twenties as a distinct period in history, bounded on one end by World War I (1914–18) and on the other by the stock market crash and the Great Depression (1929–41), the...

United States 1929 The 1920s are often generalized as a decade of post-war affluence and good times. In reality, however, there was great economic disparity worldwide, which was one of many economic and political factors that precipitated the Great...

Information concerning the stock market fills American daily newspapers and television reports. With so many Americans belonging to pension plans and other long-term investment programs, stock market shifts touch more people now than ever before. When...

A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market. Crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying economic factors. They often follow speculative stock market bubbles. Stock...

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said Wednesday that 2008 will be a year of violence worldwide and a recession in the United States, followed by a major stock-market crash by 2010.Praying about events in the coming year and sharing what he believes God has told him...

The Bush administration and top financial regulators pledged increased vigilance over hedge funds Thursday but stopped short of proposing any new regulations to control the trillion-dollar industry.Instead, the President's Working Group composed of administration officials and various market regulators put forward a set of guidelines...

The Treasury Department on Tuesday announced the formation of two advisory groups to develop recommendations for a set of "best practices" for the operation of hedge funds, the giant pools of capital that were heavily involved in the recent financial market turmoil.The groups were formed...

Alan Greenspan had a lot to say Tuesday about financial market turmoil, but by confining his observations to past crises, he made sure he didn't roil markets like he did two weeks ago.Greenspan was one of a galaxy of financial superstars appearing at a Treasury...