A few months after David Anderson got his first full-time job, at Australia's AMP Financial Services, arrived the great stock market crash of Oct 19, 1987 that came to be known around the world as Black Monday, except in Australia where it was called Black Tuesday because of the time zone difference.
Following a collapse in Asian stocks, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 22 per cent that day and around the world millions of investors lost their shirts.
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