Good news for a Monday morning: stock index futures are pointing to a modestly higher open this morning, rather than what happened exactly 22 years ago today - the infamous crash of 1987.
Monday, 5 Oct 2009 | Posted By:
Joseph Pisani | Source: CNBC.com
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