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What was the 1994 Mexican financial crisis, which triggered a sharp fall in Mexican shares and the peso, commonly called?
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Tequila Crisis
What was the 2015 collapse in Chinese share prices, which followed a rapid rise and margin lending boom, called?
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Chinese stock market crash
What name is given to Japan’s late-1980s property and stock-market bubble that burst in the early 1990s?
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Japanese asset price bubble
What was the 1997–1998 market crisis that began with Thailand’s baht devaluation commonly called?
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Asian financial crisis
What was the 1907 U.S. financial crisis, which began after a failed attempt to corner United Copper shares, called?
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Panic of 1907
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What was the 2015 collapse in Chinese share prices, which followed a rapid rise and margin lending boom, called?
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Chinese stock market crash
What name is given to Japan’s late-1980s property and stock-market bubble that burst in the early 1990s?
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Japanese asset price bubble
What was the 1997–1998 market crisis that began with Thailand’s baht devaluation commonly called?
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Asian financial crisis
Which 2010 event caused a near-record intraday plunge in U.S. stock indexes?
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Flash Crash
Which 1998 event followed Russia’s default on domestic debt and ruble devaluation?
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Russian financial crisis
What was the name of the 2000–2002 collapse in technology-stock prices?
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Dot-com crash
What name is given to the 1893 U.S. banking and stock-market crisis?
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Panic of 1893
What was the 1973–1974 global bear market associated with the oil shock commonly called?
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1973–74 stock market crash
Which financial bubble burst when the Mississippi Company collapsed in France in 1720?
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Mississippi Bubble