Not long after he took over at the Federal Reserve in 1987, Alan Greenspan was faced with questions about what to do with the Fed funds rate. After polling the various Fed presidents, in September of ...

The October 1987 stock-market crash that holds the record for the deepest one-day percentage drop still evokes memories of its carnage 30 years later. The S&P 500 index plunged into a bear market in a ...

This week marks the 23rd anniversary of the traumatic 1987 stock market crash. For the remainder of the 20th century, this anniversary took on an ominous air: Could it happen again? After suffering ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. The stock market's coronavirus-driven plunge is suffused with shades of Black Monday, the October 1987 ...

The day after the Oct. 19, 1987, stock-market crash was almost the collapse of the New York Stock Exchange, according to this Pulitzer-winning account published a month later in the Journal. Today in ...