stock market crash
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstock,marketandcrash
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stock
adjective
uk/stɒk/us/stɑːk/
(of an idea, expression, or action) usual or typical, and used or done so many times that it is no ...
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market
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈmɑː.kɪt/us/ˈmɑːr.kɪt/
usual for a particular market (= the business or trade in a particular product ...
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crash
noun[C]
uk/kræʃ/us/kræʃ/
an accident involving a vehicle, usually a serious one in which the vehicle is damaged or someone ...
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(Definition ofstock,marketandcrashfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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For example, after a stockmarketcrash, investment would switch into equities from other assets.
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For example, after the stockmarketcrashin 1987, the levels of stock prices in all major stock markets around the world made similarly spectacular drops.
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Lacking such relationships, we are not merely impoverished, as we would be if a stockmarketcrashdepleted our retirement account; rather we are incomplete beings, not fully ourselves.
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But we are delighted that a major recession has not followed the stockmarketcrash—or, at least, not yet.
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I do not have a figure for it, but if there were a major stockmarketcrash, we might end up with a large bill.
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With hindsight, it is clear that the stockmarketcrashhad no lasting effect on demand, but that was not clear at the time.
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He is talking about robust economic growth, which he is extrapolating from one quarter's figures for several countries, before the stockmarketcrash.
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It was not the 1929 stockmarketcrashthat caused the depression of the 1930s but the policy response to it.
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That, combined with the loosening of monetary policy following the stockmarketcrash, has led to inflation.
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It is partly the result of interest rates being cut too much in 1987 in response to the stockmarketcrash.
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The economy in 1987 was not, as it seemed, faltering but growing strongly, and the stockmarketcrashwas no more than a technical correction.
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Had they been in power during the 1987 stockmarketcrash, they would have reflated the economy far more than we did.
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The stockmarketcrashof 1929 led to an escalation of trade protection.
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Does he recall that after the 1929 stockmarketcrash, public service index-linked pensions fell year by year until 1936?
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With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that the stockmarketcrashwas merely a financial phenomenon of little relevance to the real economy.
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The origins of our inflation must be deeper than that, and part of the explanation lies in the loosening of monetary policy in the wake of the stockmarketcrash.
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