Black Tuesday

Black Tuesday
(in the US) the name given to 29 October 1929, the day on which the New York Stock Exchange lost $9 billion. It was the beginning of the Great Depression. When another large loss occurred on 19 October 1987, the day was called Black Monday.

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  • Black Tuesday — ˌBlack ˈTuesday noun [uncountable] 1. FINANCE Tuesday October 29, 1929, the worst day of the Wall Street Crash 2. any Tuesday when something bad happens * * * Black Tuesday UK US noun ECONOMICS, FINANCE, STOCK MARKET ► …   Financial and business terms

  • Black Tuesday — [Black Tuesday] (in the US) the name given to 29 October 1929, the day on which the ↑New York Stock Exchange lost $9 billion. It was the beginning of the ↑Great Depression. When another large loss occurred on 19 October 1987, the day was called… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Black Tuesday — Schwarzer Dienstag (engl. Black Tuesday ) bezeichnet den 29. Oktober 1929, fünf Tage nach der US Börsenkrise am Schwarzen Donnerstag. Durch eine einsetzende Panikreaktion auf den Schwarzen Freitag, der einen Zusammenbruch der Börse signalisierte …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Black Tuesday — October 29, 1929, when the DJIA fell 12% one of the largest one day drops in stock market history. More than 16 million shares were traded in a panic selloff. By many, Black Tuesday is considered the end of the Roaring 20s and the start of the… …   Investment dictionary

  • Black Tuesday (disambiguation) — Black Tuesday may refer to: *Wall Street Crash of 1929, an American stock market crash * Black Tuesday (film), a 1954 film starring Edward G. Robinson *Black Tuesday bushfires or 1967 Tasmanian fires, an Australian natural disaster *Black Monday… …   Wikipedia

  • Black Tuesday (film) — Infobox Film name = Black Tuesday imdb id = 0046790 director = Hugo Fregonese writer = Sydney Boehm starring = Edward G. Robinson, Peter Graves, Jean Parker Milburn Stone producer = Robert Goldstein music = cinematography = Stanley Cortez… …   Wikipedia

  • Black Tuesday — /blæk tju:zdeɪ/ noun Tuesday, 29th October, 1929, when the US stock market crashed …   Dictionary of banking and finance

  • Black Tuesday — noun October 24, 1929, the day of a major stock market crash, considered the onset of the Great Depression in the United States …   Wiktionary

  • Black Tuesday — October 29, 1929, when the U.S. stock market crashed, trigggering the Great Depressuon …   Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games

  • Black Tuesday — (Economics) October 29 1929 (day that the New York stock market crashed 13%, beginning of the Great Depression) …   English contemporary dictionary

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