25 years ago today, the US stock market had an unprecedented one day crash, falling ~23% on Black Monday — the largest one day decline in any market in history.
All investors should be at least one part market historian — toward that end, here is a round of the television, media, books, academic papers and reviews of what happened on October 19, 1987.
Newspaper headlines:
Source: WSJ
Source: NYT
• Video from television:
…..–Evening News the day of the crash, October 19th, 1987
…..–Louis Rukeyeser, Wall Street Week, Friday October 23, 1987
• Books: Tim Metz wrote the definitive book on the 87 crash:
…..–Black Monday: The Catastrophe of October 19, 1987 . . . and Beyond
I found it tremendously helpful when I was doing my research for Bailout Nation.
• Academic Papers:
…..-Robert Shiller, Investor Behavior in the October 1987 Stock market Crash: Survey Evidence, NBER (PDF).
…..-Mark Carlson, A Brief History of the 1987 Stock Market Crash with a Discussion of the Federal Reserve Response, Federal Reserve Board, Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs (PDF).
…..-Kenneth R. French, Crash-Testing the Efficient Market Hypothesis, University of Chicago
• Remembrances:
…..–Art Cashin’s 25th Anniversary of Black Monday discussion
…..–Crash of ’87 Recollections: ‘My Singularly Worst-Day Ever’, Paul Vigna, MarketBeat
…..–Rob Fraim: One traders 1987 experiences
…..–2011 Crash Remembrance
• Video Retrospectives:
…..-WSJ, Remembering Black Monday Crash of 1987
…..-NYT, Black Monday After 25 Years
• End of day screen shot, October 19, 1987
Courtesy of Helene Meisler, @hmeisler
• Study: Intra-day S&P fall on October 19th:
Source: Federal Reserve Board
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• NYT front page headline:
As stock prices soared this year, a chorus of pessimists warned that 1987 was looking more like 1929, when a stock market crash helped to usher in the Great Depression. Yesterday, after a plunge reminiscent of the worst days of 1929, one pressing question was whether the aftershocks would be as devastating to individuals and the nation.
The quick answer, many economists say, is no. The huge losses on Wall Street constitute a substantial blow to the economy at large. But there are many safeguards in place today -some instituted directly in response to the Depression – that would tend to prevent the cascading financial collapse that characterized the crash, impoverishing millions of Americans.
“A stock market crash doesn’t ripple out into the economy with the same force” as it did in 1929, said Geoffrey H. Moore, director of the Center for International Business Cycle Research at Columbia.
• Intra-day Dow fall on October 19th:
Source: Wikimedia
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