• Thought of the Day

    Thought of the Day

    2000: With few exceptions, when a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for poor fundamental economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

    –Warren Buffett, chairmans letter, Berkshire Hathaway annual report, 1980,

Today in Financial History

1990: The Wall Street Journal publishes market guru Joe Granville's forecast that the stock market will "crash within a few days." Granville calls for the Dow Jones Industrial Average to fall below 2,200 by the end of August and to drop below 1,750 by the spring of 1992. Unfortunately for him, and fortunately for everyone who ignores him, the Dow barely budges, finishing the month at 2,614 and soaring past 3,200 by the spring of 1992.

"Abreast of the Market," The Wall Street Journal, August 7, 1990, p. C2