Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria wreaked havoc within a few weeks of each other. Houston was hit with historic rainfall from Harvey, and much of Florida was ravaged by wind damage from Irma. But Puerto Rico suffered the most out of the Caribbean islands with Maria making landfall in September. The U.S. territory was already
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September 2017 Recap
October 6, 2017 By USPFA Team
Filed Under: Financial Know How, Market Comments Tagged With: consumer, economic, economy, fed, financial crisis, gulf coast, Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, North Korea, oil, President Trump, United Nations, Volatility, Yellen
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