New York Stock Exchange - Highest stock market value
- Who
- Unknown
- What
- 12300000000000 US dollar(s)
- When
- 01 January 0001
The market value of stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange reached an all-time high of $12.3 trillion (£7.9 trillion) at the end of Dec 1999.
The record day's trading was 652,829,000 shares on 15 Dec 1995, compared with 16,410,030 shares traded on 29 Oct 1929, the Black Tuesday of the famous crash, a record unsurpassed until April 1968.
The most shares traded on one single day in the NYSE is 2.37 billion on 17 September 2001 following a four-day closure after the World Trade Centre was attacked by terrorists on 11 September 2001.
The most shares traded on one single day in the NYSE is 2.37 billion on 17 September 2001 following a four-day closure after the World Trade Centre was attacked by terrorists on 11 September 2001.