Which investment fund’s collapse helped trigger the 1998 global market panic after Russia defaulted on its debt?
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Long-Term Capital Management
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Which investment fund’s collapse helped trigger the 1998 global market panic after Russia defaulted on its debt?
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Long-Term Capital Management
During the 2008 Icelandic financial crisis, by approximately what percentage did the OMX Iceland 15 fall in October?
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76%
What was the Nikkei 225’s closing value at its record peak before Japan’s early-1990s stock-market crash?
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38,915.87
On September 29, 2008, how many points did the Dow Jones Industrial Average lose in its then-record single-day point drop?
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777.68 points
What was the name of the 1973–1974 global stock-market crash linked to the oil crisis and economic stagnation?
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1973–1974 stock-market crash
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