Japan's Nikkei index crashed 24%.
Until the Nasdaq index crashed through the atmosphere last spring, insiders' shares in a technology company were equated with manna from heaven.
The Market Vectors Steel exchange-traded fund, which tracks the AMEX Steel index, crashed 82% between May and November of 2008.
c-index: Concordance-index; CRASH: Corticosteroid randomisation after significant head injury; GCS: Glasgow coma scale; GOS: Glasgow outcome scale; IQR: Interquartile range.
In the past six months, the headline composite index has crashed by 12.5 points, a record only exceeded post-Lehman in 2008.
The identified effects, both indirect (peak hour, higher volume and lower speed upstream of crash locations) and direct (higher congestion index downstream to crash locations) congestion indicators confirmed the significant impact of congestion on rear-end crash likelihood.
12 The prevalence of obesity among commercial drivers may also result in musculoskeletal compromise, and the association with elevated body mass index (BMI) and crashes has been documented.
This study investigated crash experience on the US-191 corridor using four different crash indicators; crash frequency, severity index, combined safety index, and crash rate per mile distance.
The Flash Crash Index, calculated a day ahead, detects market microstructure conditions that make a specific market or any financial instrument prone to flash crashes on the following trading day.
Figure 5. AbleMarkets Flash Crash Index for NYSE SPY, covering August-November 2014. Figure 6.
