• Thought of the Day

    Thought of the Day

    2000: Be patient. Watched stock never boils.

    –Peter Lynch, One up on Wall Street (New York: Penguin, 1990), p. 235.

Today in Financial History

1969: The New York Stock Exchange, so far behind on its antiquated paperwork that it has to close each Wednesday so that clerks can process trades, appropriates the unprecedented sum of $7.5 million to upgrade its computer systems.

Alexander J. Field, "The Telegraphic Transmission of Financial Asset Prices and Orders to Trade: Implications for Economic Growth, Trading Volume, and Securities Market Regulation," Research in Economic History, vol. 18 (1998), pp. 145-184, p. 154.