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Clarence Charles Hatry (16 December 1888 – 10 June 1965) was an English company promoter, financier, bankrupt, bookseller and publisher. [1] The fall of the Hatry group in September 1929, which had been worth about £24 million (equivalent to £1,840,000,000 in 2023), is cited as a contributing factor to the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
20 August – First transmissions of John Logie Baird's experimental 30-line television system by the BBC in London. [8] 2 October – The union between the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland takes place. 28 October – Sharp fall on the London Stock Exchange, following a similar crash on Wall Street on 24 October. [3] 1 ...
September 20: The London Stock Exchange crashes after the collapse of Hatry Group on charges of fraud and forgery. £24 million in value is wiped out. The collapse shakes the confidence of American investors in the security of overseas investments. October 24: Wall Street Crash of 1929 begins. Stocks lose over 11% of their value upon the ...
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I've been in the Library of Congress lately reading financial newspapers from the week of the October, 1929 stock market crash that ultimately crushed the Dow Jones by nearly 90%. Last week, I ...
Nothing is more appealing to stock market investors than the idea that they can predict the future. Recently, several market analysts have argued that the Dow Jones Industrials is setting itself ...
The Great Depression of 1929–32 broke out at a time when the United Kingdom was still far from having recovered from the effects of the First World War. Economist Lee Ohanian showed that economic output fell by 25% between 1918 and 1921 and did not recover until the end of the Great Depression, [3] arguing that the United Kingdom suffered a twenty-year great depression beginning in 1918.
Souk Al-Manakh stock market crash: Aug 1982 Kuwait: Black Monday: 19 Oct 1987 USA: Infamous stock market crash that represented the greatest one-day percentage decline in U.S. stock market history, culminating in a bear market after a more than 20% plunge in the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average. Among the primary causes of the chaos ...