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Which currency fell sharply after Thailand abandoned its fixed exchange rate during the 1997 Asian financial crisis?
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Thai baht
Which country defaulted on its domestic debt during the 1998 crisis that caused a major global market shock?
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Russia
Which London bank’s collapse helped trigger the Panic of 1866, a major Victorian-era financial crisis?
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Overend, Gurney and Company
Which country’s stock exchange was the first major market to reopen after the 1987 Black Monday crash?
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Australia
What nickname identifies the stock-market crash that began on October 24, 1929, in the United States?
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Black Thursday
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Which London bank’s collapse helped trigger the Panic of 1866, a major Victorian-era financial crisis?
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Overend, Gurney and Company
What date is known as Black Monday, when global stock markets suffered a historic 1987 collapse?
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October 19, 1987
Which U.S. stock index first entered a bear market during the 2000–2002 dot-com crash?
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Nasdaq Composite
Which company’s stock-market collapse helped define the South Sea Bubble of 1720?
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South Sea Company
Which U.S. president signed the law that created the Securities and Exchange Commission after the 1929 crash?
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Franklin D. Roosevelt