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Black Monday: How Bankers Trust made a killing in the 1987 crash

Vesna Poljak
Vesna PoljakCompanies editor

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Olev Rahn and Mark Burgess were stuffing nickels and dimes into payphones up and down Manhattan one week before the Black Monday crash, selling futures against the S&P 500.

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Vesna Poljak is the Companies editor. She was previously the Markets editor with a special interest in the investment industry, hedge funds and accounting. She is based in the Sydney newsroom. Connect with Vesna on Twitter. Email Vesna at vpoljak@afr.com

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