• Thought of the Day

    Thought of the Day

    2000: [The bankers] business might be defined as the lending of money exclusively to people who have no pressing need of it. In times of stress, when everybody needs money, he strives to avoid lending to anybody.

    –Fred Schwed, Where Are the Customers Yachts? (New York: Wiley, 1995 ed.), p. 30.

Today in Financial History

1997: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 7,500 for the first time, and The Wall Street Journal notes that the market's climb "seems to inspire equal parts awe and dread among many investors." Fred Taylor, chief investment officer at U.S. Trust, guesses that the stock market will end the year "lower than its current level." (The Dow finishes 1997 at 7908.25, or more than 5% higher.)

The Wall Street Journal, June 11, 1997, p. C1