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In the British TV series Dragons' Den, in which year did the programme first air?
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2005
What was the name of the 1992 currency-market crisis that forced the United Kingdom to leave the European Exchange Rate Mechanism?
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Black Wednesday
On what date did the Dow Jones Industrial Average enter a bear market during the 2020 COVID-19 market crash?
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March 11, 2020
What was the name of the crash that followed the peak of the Nasdaq Composite on March 10, 2000?
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Dot-com crash
Which investment bank filed for bankruptcy on September 15, 2008, becoming a major trigger of the global financial crisis?
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Lehman Brothers
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