DAY 4: The stock market rout may not be over: As investors pause for breath, we assess what could turn a correction into a crash Flashcards

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Japan’s benchmark Topix share index had fallen by how much?

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12%

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2
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Stock prices in South Korea and Taiwan had tanked by

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9% and 8%

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3
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VIX index

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measures how wildly traders expect share prices to swing

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4
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Lehman Brothers collapsed in what year

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2008

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5
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What suggests that investors are selling assets to stay afloat?

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The dropping of gold prices

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6
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S&P 500 index of large American firms was down by how much

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3%

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7
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Japan’s Topix rose by how much?

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9%

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Half an hour after the opening bell was rung…

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S&P 500 went up by 1%

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9
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What was the chaos triggered by? [2]

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rapidly strengthening yen in the first case

evaporating euphoria over artificial intelligence in the next two.

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10
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Which orginisations enjoyed a rise on the day of the report jobs?

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Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble and UnitedHealth

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11
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a trading-strategy boss at Citigroup bank

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Christian Raute

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12
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Why is the a drop according to christian raute?

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professional investors have received a “tap on the shoulder” from above, ordering them to reduce their risk

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13
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Carry Trades

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borrowing yen cheaply and using the proceeds to buy other assets

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14
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Which currency has grown at an astonishing speed?

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The Japanese Yen

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15
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Archegos

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a family office, in 2021, prompting fire-sales of its assets and losses for its banks stretching into the billions.

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16
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Which firms in the S&P 500 are still due to report their second-quarter earnings?

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Walmart, Home Depot and Nvidia

17
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What is the importance of Nvidia?

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The fortunes on which AI investors depend

18
Q

Inflation data released on August 14th will…

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will hint at whether the Fed can indeed cut rates by 0.5 percentage points