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Black Monday Crash, 25 Years Later; Pay Realist Gorman Likely to Lose Shares on Missed Targets: Roundup

Twenty-five years after the Black Monday stock market crash of 1987, the potential for a catastrophic plunge remains, says Bloomberg. The Wall Street Journal looks back at the articles it published on the week of Oct. 19, 1987.

It seems the Times has also seen a “bootleg” copy of Greg Smith’s Why I Left Goldman Sachs, and its take is in line with what we’ve read of the book so far: “Long on Mr. Smith’s reminiscences of the pleasures of the job—handmade suits, sashimi at 30,000 feet, strawberries at Wimbledon—the former Goldman salesman’s book does not break much new ground on illegal or questionable financial practices at the firm.” Read More

Lily’s Pad

Lily Safra has thrown in the towel on her nearly three-year-long push to sell her unfinished ninth-floor condo at 838 Fifth Avenue, real-estate sources close to the proceedings said. According to sources, Ms. Safra—the widow of late banking magnate Edmond Safra, who died when a fire swept through his Monte Carlo duplex penthouse in December Read More