Spotting Stock Market Winners
The stock market, big winners unfold over years and could be a valuable core holding in a trading account.
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Buttonwood Agreement
In 1790, the nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, issued $80 million in bonds to pay for the Revolutionary War. On May 17, 1792 a group of twenty-four merchants and brokers gathered under a buttonwood tree at 68 Wall Street in lower Manhattan, New York City, and agreed to trade the securities. The …