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The 1929 Stock Market Crash

In early 1928 the Dow Jones Average went from a low of 191 to a high of 300 in December of 1928 and peaked at 381 in September of 1929. 1929...) It was anticipated that the increases in earnings and dividends would continue. (1929...) Price to earnings ratio's rose from 10 to 12 to 20 and higher for the market's favorite stocks. (1929...) Observers believed that stock market prices in the first 6 months of 1929 were high, while others saw them to be cheap. (1929...) On October 3rd, the Dow Jones Average began to drop, declining through out the week of October 14th. (1929...) On the night of Monday, October 21st, 1929, margin calls were heavy and Dutch and German calls came in to sell overnight for the Tuesday morning opening. (1929...) On Tuesday morning, out of town banks and corporations called in $150 million of call loans, and Wall Street was in a panic before the New York Stock Exchange opened. (1929...) On Thursday, October 24th, 1929, people began to sell their stocks as fast as they could., sell orders flooded market exchanges. (1929...) This day became known as Black Thursday. (Black Thursday...) On a normal day, only 750-800 members of the New York Stock Exchange started the exchange. (1929...) There were 1100 members on


It is also unlikely that the crash of the market would have been large enough to lead the US economy into the depression and to sustain the downward spiral in business activity. (1929-1931) A few investors that lost all of their money jumped to their deaths from office buildings. This policy reduced the amount of broker loans that originated from banks and lowered the liquidity of non-financial and other corporations that financed brokers and dealers. Commercial banks in New York made loans to security brokers and dealers, which in turn provided liquidity to the non-financial and other corporations that financed brokers and dealers prior to the crash. Investors has high expectations that they would receive large returns in a few months, so they could pay the balance and have money left over in return.

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