Cold War

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On this day in 1958, the U.S. Department of Defense founded the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Where Was The Market? The S&P 500 was at 41.73 and the Dow Jones...

Each day, Benzinga will take a look back at a notable market-related moment that happened on this date. What Happened? On this day 26 years ago, the Soviet Union, America’s Cold War rivals for decades, officially dissolved. Where Was The Market? The S&P 500 closed the previous week at...

(Author Mark Fritz was East Berlin correspondent for the Associated Press from 1990–1993; as an editor on the Foreign Desk, he filed the bulletin on the fall of the Berlin Wall.) History handed West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl an epic opening, and he hurled his hulking frame right through...