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Black Tuesday

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On 20 October 1987 the news of share market falls on Wall street sparked a dramatic day of selling on the New Zealand market. In this television clip John Hudson reports on the pandemonium.

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David Grant, Stock market – Rise and fall, 1984–1987, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/23690/black-tuesday (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by David Grant, published 4 March 2010.