Major Milestones, World as an single Economy - Financial.

Major Milestones, world as an economy - Financial categorized year wise. Here is the list of timeline starting from 1960 to 2012 the major milestone achieved by various countries on different things which revolution-ed the whole world. Here it goes! 

1960	Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC) was formed in Baghdad. A oil barrel was traded for $2.90
1962	FTSE All-Share Index first calculated.
1963	First European Eurobonds issued in 1963 by Italian motorway network Autostrade
1964	Clive W J Grander and Michio Hatanka published Spectral Analysis for Economic Times Series
1967	UK Prime minister Harold Wilsondevalues the pound; Muriel Siebert becomes the first female member of the New York Stock Exchange
1968	Richard Brealey’s Principles of Corporate Finance
1969	Tokyo Stock Price Index inaugurated (TOPIX)
1970	Large oil field found in North Sea; first attempt at creating European Economic and Monetary Union(EMU); first Mortgage Based Security(MBS) brought to market in US by Ginnie Mae.
1972	On 14 November the Dow closes above 1000 for the first time in the history at 1003.16
1973	First Female members admitted to the London Stock Exchange
1975	OPEC oil embargo
1976	The first G7 Summit was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1976, with President Gerald Ford as host.
1977	TSX launched the world’s first Computer Assisted Trading Systems(CATS) and TSX 300 composite index, which became the benchmark index for equity market of Canada.
1977	Bear stearns underwrite the first new-issue junk bond in the decade.
1978	China turned into market oriented economy.
1981	Arthur Betz Laffer starts ‘Supply Side Economics’
1982	FTSE 100 first calculated
1986	Deregulation of London Stock Exchange (LSE)
1987	Black Monday stock market crash worldwide
1988	RJR Nabisco bought out for $25 billion
1989	The Nikkei 225 crash
1990	The Shanghai Stock Exchange founded;
1992	North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed;
1995	World Trade Organisation (WTO) founded; Russian trading system established.
1997	New Labour government fived Bank of England independence from political control
1998	Dot.com bubble begin
1999	Dow touched 10000 mark; NASDAQ become world’s biggest stock market by dollar volume.
2001	London Stock Exchange (LSE) celebrated 200th anniversary
2002	Euro currency in 12 European states introduced.
2007	Subprime collateralized debt obligations (CDO) market  valued worth more than $45 trillion
2008	FTSE 100 suffers worst one-day drop in history as banking crisis; Lehman Brother collapsed.
2009	UK GDP contracts for six consecutive quarters for the first time since quarterly figures were first recorded in 1955.
2010	Ireland and Greece require economic bailout
2011	Portugal and Spain on the brink of EU bailout; the prices of crude oil is $112/barrel
2012	(estimated) Indian economy will grow faster than China’s in terms of GDP.

 Current affairs of history!