This Week in Trading History: The Atomic Bomb
This week in Trading History we see the devastation of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, resulting in a U.S. stock market increase with the end of the war in ...This Week in Trading History: First World War Fears Cripple Markets
This week in trading history we see how the beginning of the first world war influenced the markets, the forming of perhaps the greatest management duo in history, and the ...This Week in Trading History: Man Reaches the Moon & Facebook Plummets
This week in trading history we see the first footsteps on the moon and Facebook's biggest stock drop in the company’s history. We also see President Nixon hand over some ...This Week in Trading History: The Beginnings of Twitter and Amazon
This week in Trading History saw two internet giants launch for the first time; Twitter, originally named ‘Twttr’, and Amazon. We also see the creation of the largest beer company ...This Week in Trading History: The Wall Street Journal is Published
This week in Trading History we see the arrival of the cocoa bean to Europe, the first edition of the Wall Street Journal and Andrew Jackson making some rather questionable ...This Week in Trading History: The First Ever Insider Trading Conviction
This week in trading history sees Bernie Madoff sent up the river to the big house as well as the first ever conviction for insider trading...This Week in Trading History: The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
This week in trading history sees the birth of Roy Disney, the death of Michael Jackson, a message from Mars, and the historic assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand...This Week in Trading History: Allen Stanford, Arthur Andersen & Boris
This week in trading history sees infamous Ponzi fraudster Allen Stanford pay for his crimes, accounting firm Arthur Andersen gets some bad press and a future British PM is born...This Week in Trading History: Trump, Thatcher & Swine Flu
This week’s trading history includes the birth of a notorious president of the United States, the re-election of a British PM, and the arrival of a global pandemic. No, not ...This Week in Trading History: General Motors' Road to Ruin
This week in trading history sees various stories which contributed to the downfall of one of America’s largest names in the automobile industry...