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Brokers gather to remember 1987 crash

For the brokers they were fun times – that is, until the crash. PLUS: Photo essay.

Duncan Bridgeman
Wed, 18 Oct 2017

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Trading oil stocks on the “sports board,” everyone had a nickname back in 1987.

Pistol Pete, Milky Bar Burke, Slippery Ed to name just a few.

Some of those names reappeared yesterday as a group of about 40 brokers and a couple of chalkies reunited at the Vero

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Duncan Bridgeman
Wed, 18 Oct 2017
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