1857年10月13日
Eighteen banks in New York City suspend payments on loans after the Ohio Life Insurance & Trust Company, gambling on the midwestern land boom, goes bust. A telegraph was spreading half-truths and wild rumors over the whole country, says chronicler James Medbery. Journals, in the interest of men who prey upon panic, caught up every whisper, misstated and exaggerated lists of failures, and ran up their editions to thousands upon thousands.... shares went down, down, down. Stock prices drop 8-10% in a day, setting off the terrible Panic of 1857.
1893年10月13日
The nation's railroads took a beating in 1893. Debt, bankruptcy, and plummeting stock prices crippled numerous companies and ultimately gave way to one of the nation's most staggering fiscal panics. On October 13, Union Pacific, one of the nation's largest railroads, announced that it was in receivership.
1915年10月13日
Trading prices on the New York Stock Exchange, formerly quoted as a percentage of par value -- just as bond prices still are today -- are changed over to increments of dollars and fractions.
1971年10月13日
On this day in 1971 Intel went public on the NASDAQ exchange.
1999年11月13日 香港创业板市场宣告成立
11月13日香港创业板市场正式宣告成立,标志着香港金融投资市场揭开了新的一页。