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Timeline 1790-Today click images below to read highlights It all started with the Buttonwood Agreement in 1792. Follow this timeline to discover some of the highlights—and lowlights—that shaped our modern-day capital markets.       1886 Trading volume hits 1,000,000 shares per day. 1896 Dow Jones begins publishing the Wall Street Journal, and creates four averages to measure market performance as a whole. These averages include the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), the Transportation Average, the Utility Average and the Composite Average. 1920-1929 The stock market sees substantial gains during a long-term bull market following World War I. 1929 On October 29, 1929, the rally of the 1920s ends when the stock market crashes, falling more than 12.8% in one day. 1930-1943 Securities prices languish as the deepening global depression is followed by the outbreak of World War II. In the last years of World War II, the American stock markets begin to recuperate. |
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