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  2. 1926 Louisiana hurricane - Wikipedia

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    Due to the potential effects of the hurricane on the cotton industry, cotton stock markets reported gains of eight to fifteen points from the first trades, [8] with stock prices closing with a net gain as high as 24 points. [9]

  3. Tim Walz - Wikipedia

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    Timothy James Walz (/ w ɔː l z / ⓘ WAWLZ; born April 6, 1964) is an American politician, former schoolteacher, and a retired U.S. Army non-commissioned officer.He has served since 2019 as the 41st governor of Minnesota.

  4. List of S&P 500 companies - Wikipedia

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    The S&P 500 is a stock market index maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices. It comprises 503 common stocks which are issued by 500 large-cap companies traded on American stock exchanges (including the 30 companies that compose the Dow Jones Industrial Average). The index includes about 80 percent of the American market by capitalization.

  5. Nixon shock - Wikipedia

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    The Nixon shock was the effect of a series of economic measures, including wage and price freezes, surcharges on imports, and the unilateral cancellation of the direct international convertibility of the United States dollar to gold, taken by United States President Richard Nixon on 15th August 1971 in response to increasing inflation.

  6. Price Chopper (Northeastern United States) - Wikipedia

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    Price Chopper Supermarkets is an American supermarket chain owned by Northeast Grocery, headquartered in Schenectady, New York.The chain opened its first supermarkets in New York's Capital District in 1932, and changed its name from Central Market to Price Chopper in 1973.

  7. Nasdaq - Wikipedia

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    The Nasdaq Stock Market (/ ˈ n æ z d æ k / ⓘ; National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American stock exchange based in New York City.It is the most active stock trading venue in the U.S. by volume, [3] and ranked second on the list of stock exchanges by market capitalization of shares traded, behind the New York Stock Exchange. [4]

  8. Nasdaq Stockholm - Wikipedia

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    Nasdaq Stockholm, formerly known as the Stockholm Stock Exchange (Swedish: Stockholmsbörsen), is a stock exchange located in Frihamnen, Stockholm, Sweden. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Founded in 1863, [ 5 ] it has become the primary securities exchange of the Nordic countries .

  9. Closing milestones of the S&P 500 - Wikipedia

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    Launched by the Standard Statistics Company in 1926 as the successor to its 1923 233-stock weekly index, the Composite Stock Index was a daily 90-stock index that preceded the S&P 500. Following continual daily closure records from 17.66 in December 1927 to 31.71 in August 1929, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 began a trend of daily closure ...