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- From: jmartin@ntmtv.UUCP (Jeff Martin)
- Subject: Re: 87 Crash (was "Market efficiency")
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.152800.18424@ntmtv>
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- References: <1992Dec19.011019.1485@gumby.dsd.trw.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:28:00 GMT
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- From article <1992Dec19.011019.1485@gumby.dsd.trw.com>, by suhre@meltami.dsd.trw.com (Maurice E. Suhre):
- > In article <BzE43t.D4t@cs.uiuc.edu> watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe) writes:
- >>* Oct 19 1987. During the weekend, Baker tells the world
- >> that we are going to let the dollar go, because the
- >> Germans aren't loosening monetary and fiscal policy
- >> as Baker demanded. That Monday, the stock market drops 508 points.
- >
- > Richard Mogey, I believe, argued that you can
- > get some handle on what the markets are going
- > to do by watching the capital flows around the
- > world. When Baker announced that the dollar wouldn't
- > be supported, the capital fled the country and the
- > market crumbled.
- >
-
- Lets remeber that the for 1987 the market (S&P 500) was up
- 3%. The so called crash was a correction for huge run-ups
- in stock prices earlier in the year. Moreover the "crash"
- actually began on Friday Oct. 16 with a 100+ point drop.
-
- Jeff Martin
-