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LONDON (MarketWatch) — This October marks the 20th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash, the biggest one-day post-war percentage drop for U.S. markets.

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) –There is a nip in the air again. Pennant fever is running rampant from L.A. to Boston and from New York to San Diego. Gridiron warriors are once again doing battle. This can only mean that our favorite season is but a flip of the calendar away. No, not autumn; but the merriest time of year on Wall Street — ETF season.

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Analysts, including yours truly, love to draw parallels between current market conditions and those of the past.

CINCINNATI (MarketWatch) — Immediately after the Federal Reserve’s rate cut, in mid-September, the interest-rate sensitive sectors responded on cue.

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Confidence among large Japanese manufacturers was unchanged in the three months through September, the Bank of Japan’s quarterly tankan survey of business conditions showed Monday, beating expectations for a decline in outlook and sending the yen higher against the U.S. dollar.

SAN DIEGO (MarketWatch) — When Silicon Valley venture capitalist and entrepreneur Jim Clark resigned as chairman and quit the board of Shutterfly Inc. earlier this year, one of the reasons he gave was that as a “technologist” he believed there was “little that I can offer to guide what has become a manufacturing company.”