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Inside an Index

The seasons are changing, but not much seems to be changing with stocks. Leaves are falling. Stocks prices are ascending. Another day, another new all-time high.  Even the first trading day of Q4 welcomed new highs, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed 23,000 for the first time on October 18th.  The media seems to

Then and Now: The Crash of 1987

It wasn’t quite the Kennedy assassination, “9/11”, or the O.J. verdict, events where time seemed to stand still for a few moments.  But don’t tell that to the Wall Street traders and advisers who lived through “Black Monday,” the bloodiest day in stock market history, October 19, 1987.  On that day, the Dow Jones Industrial