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In this series we're profiling managers whose funds are constituents of the 20-year club (i.e. at least two decades of ...
The South Sea Bubble (United Kingdom (TADAWUL: 4280), 1720) It is reported that Sir Isaac Newton, one of the greatest minds of the Enlightenment, lost £20,000 or the equivalent of $3 million today in ...
Within days, prices nosedived. Many bulbs lost over 90% of their value. Source: Barrie Wilkinson on LinkedIn 2. The South Sea Bubble (United Kingdom, 1720) ...
The South Sea Bubble was Britain’s first financial stock market crash and a major event of the early Georgian period, resulting from the financial collapse of the South Sea Company in 1720.
The South Sea Bubble (1720) involved a British company promising immense profits from trade, causing stock prices to skyrocket until the scheme unraveled.
Reading Nikou Asgari’s piece on the stablecoin boom (Report, September 5), with its subheading “Rush prompts critics to warn that tokens are a ‘novelty’ bet with little use beyond trading ...
2. The South Sea Bubble The South Sea Bubble of 1720 was created by a more complex set of circumstances than Tulipmania.
Smead Capital drew parallels between today's stock market and the Tulip Mania of 1636 and the South Sea Bubble of 1720.