This Day in Financial History


1930 - Trying to rebuild public confidence in the market, New York Stock Exchange President Richard Whitney has the press witness him making a bid (with his own money) of $160 a share for a 60,000-share block of U.S. Steel stock. "Shortly thereafter" the stock sinks below $150, on its way to $21 in the market bottom of 1932.

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