Rare ORIGINAL 1929 WALL STREET JOURNAL newspaper from Year of STOCK MARKET CRASH

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Rare ORIGINAL 1929 WALL STREET JOURNAL newspaper from Year of STOCK MARKET CRASH
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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE,
ORIGINAL
NEWSPAPER, the
Wall Street Journal
(NY)
dated in 1929, the year of the GREAT STOCK MARKET CRASH and the beginning of the GREAT DEPRESSION
.
The exact date of this original 1929
Wall Street Journal
is selected
at random
from our limited inventory of this newspaper dated in 1929. Read all the news and stock quotes as they were in flux before the GREAT CRASH of Oct 24-29, 1929 that set in motion the GREAT DEPRESSION.
Great UNIQUE item for a present-day stock broker or investor to frame and display in their office ! It sure makes a great conversation piece for new and existing clients who see it.
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating
stock market crash
in the
history of the United States
, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year
Great Depression
that affected all Western industrialized countries.
The
Roaring Twenties
, the decade that followed
World War I
and led to the Crash, was a time of wealth and excess. Building on post-war optimism, many rural Americans migrated to the cities in vast numbers throughout the decade with the hopes of finding a more prosperous life in the ever growing expansion of America's industrial sector. While the American cities prospered, the vast migration from rural areas and continued neglect of the US agriculture industry would create widespread financial despair among American farmers throughout the decade and would later be blamed as one of the key factors that led to the 1929 stock market crash.
Despite the dangers of
speculation
, many believed that the stock market would continue to rise indefinitely. On March 25, 1929, however, a mini crash occurred after investors started to sell stocks at a rapid pace, exposing the market's shaky foundation. Two days later, banker
Charles E. Mitchell
announced his company the
National City Bank
would provide million in credit to stop the market’s slide. Mitchell's move brought a temporary halt to the financial crisis and call money declined from 20 to eight percent. However, the American economy was now showing ominous signs of trouble. Steel production was declining, construction was sluggish, car sales were down, and consumers were building up high debts because of easy credit.
The market had been on a nine-year run that saw the
Dow Jones Industrial Average
increase in value tenfold, peaking at 381.17 on September 3, 1929. Shortly before the crash, economist
Irving Fisher
famously proclaimed, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." The optimism and financial gains of the great
bull market
were shaken on September 18, 1929, when
share prices
on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) abruptly fell.
On September 20, the
London Stock Exchange
(LSE) officially crashed when top British investor
Clarence Hatry
and many of his associates were jailed for fraud and forgery. The LSE's crash greatly weakened the optimism of American investment in markets overseas. In the days leading up to the crash, the market was severely unstable. Periods of selling and high volumes of
trading
were interspersed with brief periods of rising prices and recovery. Economist and author
Jude Wanniski
later correlated these swings with the prospects for passage of the
Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act
, which was then being debated in Congress.
On October 24 ("Black Thursday"), the market lost 11% of its value at the opening bell on very heavy trading. Several leading
Wall Street
bankers
met to find a solution to the panic and chaos on the trading floor. The meeting included
Thomas W. Lamont
, acting head of
Morgan Bank
;
Albert Wiggin
, head of the
Chase National Bank
; and
Charles E. Mitchell
, president of the
National City Bank of New York
. They chose
Richard Whitney
, vice president of the Exchange, to act on their behalf.
With the bankers' financial resources behind him, Whitney placed a bid to purchase a large block of shares in
U.S. Steel
at a price well above the current market. As traders watched, Whitney then placed similar bids on other "
blue chip
" stocks. This tactic was similar to one that ended the
Panic of 1907
. It succeeded in halting the slide. The Dow Jones Industrial Average recovered, closing with it down only 6.38 points for the day; however, unlike 1907, the respite was only temporary.
Over the weekend, the events were covered by the newspapers across the United States. On October 28, "Black Monday", more investors decided to get out of the market, and the slide continued with a record loss in the Dow for the day of 38.33 points, or 13%.
The next day, "Black Tuesday", October 29, 1929, about sixteen million shares were traded, and the Dow lost an additional 30 points, or 12%, amid rumors that U.S. President
Herbert Hoover
would not veto the pending
Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act
. The volume of stocks traded on October 29, 1929 was a record that was not broken for nearly 40 years.
On October 29,
William C. Durant
joined with members of the
Rockefeller family
and other financial giants to buy large quantities of stocks in order to demonstrate to the public their confidence in the market, but their efforts failed to stop the large decline in prices. Due to the massive volume of stocks traded that day, the
ticker
did not stop running until about 7:45 p.m. that evening. The market had lost over billion in the space of two days which included billion on October 29 alone.
Good condition. Some paper chipping at edges. This listing includes the complete entire original newspaper, NOT just a clipping or a page of it. STEPHEN A. GOLDMAN HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS stands behind all of the items that we sell with a no questions asked, money back guarantee. Every item we sell is an original newspaper printed on the date indicated at the beginning of its description. U.S. buyers pay priority mail postage which includes waterproof plastic and a heavy cardboard flat to protect your purchase from damage in the mail. International postage is quoted when we are informed as to where the package is to be sent. We do combine postage (to reduce postage costs) for multiple purchases sent in the same package.
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