Wall Street Crash of 1929 one aspect of the crash: It wiped out billions of dollars of wealth in one day, and this immediately depressed consumer buying. The failure set off a worldwide run on US gold deposits (i.e. the dollar), and forced the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates into the slump. Some 4,000 banks and other lenders ultimately failed. Also, the uptick rule, which allowed short selling only when the last tick in a stock's price was positive, was implemented after the 1929 market crash to prevent short sellers from driving the price of a stock down in a bear raid. The stock
Wall Street Week Wall Street Week Wall Street Week with Maria Bartiromo (WSW), retitled in early 2018 as Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street, is an investment news and information TV program airing Friday nights on the Fox Business Network. The original weekly show hosted by Louis Rukeyser aired each Friday evening on PBS in the United States from 1970 to 2002. The program features a host (or hosts) and guest experts participating in discussions related to the financial markets. The original show, which was created by Anne Truax Darlington and produced by Maryland Public Television (MPT), debuted on the entire PBS network on January