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• World's Stock Market Crashes

Which city’s stock exchange crash in 1873 gave its name to the Panic of 1873’s initial financial shock?

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Vienna

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• World's Stock Market Crashes

Which currency was devalued at the start of the 1997 Asian financial crisis and stock-market crash?

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Thai baht

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• World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company began as BankAmericard in 1958 before becoming the global payments network Visa?

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Visa

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Which company created the semiconductor architecture used by most modern ARM-based smartphone processors?

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Arm Holdings

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Which Chinese technology company owns WeChat and is listed in Hong Kong?

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Tencent

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Which chip designer developed the GeForce graphics-processing brand and became a market-cap giant through AI computing?

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Nvidia

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Which company became the first to manufacture 3-nanometer smartphone chips for Apple?

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TSMC

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Which pharmaceutical company developed the diabetes drug Mounjaro, one of the products behind its rapid rise in market value?

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Eli Lilly

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Which investment company, led by Warren Buffett for decades, is listed in Fortune's history as the successor to a textile business?

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Berkshire Hathaway

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Which company operates Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp under its corporate name adopted in 2021?

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Meta Platforms

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Which company is the world's largest brewer and became a major global business after acquiring SABMiller in 2016?

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Anheuser-Busch InBev

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Which company, founded in 1994 as Cadabra, Inc., became a global e-commerce and cloud-computing giant?

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Amazon

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