Definition - What does Closing Date mean? The closing date refers to the date when a company purchase and sale transaction is signed off and completed. This date may be different than the effective date, which is the date when the transaction is deemed to have occurred. Most of the time, the closing and effective date of a transaction is the same day.
The most catastrophic stock market crash in the history of the United States, Black Tuesday took place on October 29, 1929 and was when the price of stocks completely collapsed. It was because of this day that the Roaring Twenties came to a stumbling halt and, in its place, was the Great Depression.
Author: William L. Silber. After a month-long run on American banks, Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed a Bank Holiday, beginning March 6, 1933, that shut down the banking system. When the banks reopened on March 13, depositors stood in line to return their hoarded cash. This article attributes the success of the Bank Holiday and the remarkable turnaround in the publicâs confidence to the Emergency Banking Act, passed by Congress on March 9, 1933.