Friday, August 03, 2007

What Years Did the U.S. have Stock Market Crashes?

Here is something to test your financial history knowledge. What years did the U.S. have Stock Market Crashes? A couple of these years may be interpreted as major stock market corrections [or mini stock market crashes] as opposed to stock market crashes. Here are the stock market crashes in chronological order:

1819
1837
1869
1873
1929
1987
1989
2000
2001
2002
2007 (7th largest drop in Dow Jones Industrial Average history)

The picture, courtesy of the US Government, shows a crowd of people outside the New York Stock Exchange during the 1929 stock market crash.

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