Articles on Stock markets

Before Lehman Brothers and Bear Sterns, probably the most well-known and publicized bankruptcy was the Enron scandal

There have been many notable investors who have withstood the test of time. Warren Buffett, J.P. Morgan, Benjamin Graham

Undoubtedly, the biggest hoax in the history of the market is credited to Bernard Madoff, who made off over $10 billion

A Ponzi scheme is a scandal where new investment money is used to create the illusion of returns

The late 1990’s saw a huge uptick in the number of tech startups, as the age of the Internet took hold and new companies

The largest single-day point gain occurred on October 13, 2008 and, the largest percentage gain was on March 15, 1933

The latest housing bubble burst in 2005, a few years prior to the stock market meltdown. Some housing prices fell 30-80%

On May 6, 2010, investors around the world were shocked when the Dow Jones fell nearly 1,000 points in a matter of minutes

Large institutional investors sometimes trade on “Electronic Trading Crossing Networks,” without publicly exposing them

Simply put, insider trading is the crime of trading in a company’s stock based on information not available to the public

In 2007, Qwest Communications CEO Joseph Nacchio was convicted of making over $50 million dollars through illegal trades

According to the Federal Reserve, there are over 1.7 trillion U.S. Dollars in circulation

The total United States national debt is $19.3 trillion as of fiscal year (FY) 2016

As of 2014, global GDP was $77 trillion. The total market capitalization of all world stock markets is about $70 trillion

The best day for the markets, in terms of the largest single-day point gain for the Dow Jones was October 13th, 2008

The worst day for the markets, in terms of the largest single-day point loss by the Dow Jones, was September 29th, 2008

Based purely on statistics, the “best” performing stock ever between 1957 and 2007 was Phillip Morris (cigarette maker)

Markets have been around for much longer than most people think. The Tulip bubble happened in the 1500's!

The South Sea Company was created in the 18th Century, by the British government. The bubble burst a few years later

In short, a bubble forms when investors start bidding up the price of an asset well beyond its intrinsic value

The October Effect is an anecdotally-founded fear that markets are vulnerable to catastrophe in the month of October