Word: panic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...know the depth and breadth of the losses. Indeed, banks don't even know how to value a lot of the paper on their books these days. What we, and they, do know is that ordinary young traders can see their positions go south and are liable to panic and mess up in ways that keep pushing the decimal point over to the right - without their "superiors" knowing about it until it's way too late. Nick Leeson taught us that in the '90s, and now, in just the same way, so has Jérôme Kerviel...
...quite hang with the big boys. Following this up-and-down season, New Yorkers might say, was more exciting than enjoying their opponents’ apparently monotone success. But the Patriots—and their fans along with them—have had their moments of panic. As a few other editors of this newspaper can testify, I was prostrate on the floor and nearly hysterical in the final seconds of the Pats’ dramatic 27-24 win over the Baltimore Ravens in early December. Once I recovered from hyperventilating, I realized for the first time that an undefeated...
...Downstairs, in the theater's press filing room, Al Cardenas, a Washington lobbyist who chaired Romney's Florida campaign, continued in the same frame of reference. "We think that the conservative movement activists are now beginning to panic about losing their grip on the Republican Party," Cardenas said. "They better start working hard, and they have told us they are going to have to start working hard...
...billion for Barings Bank in 1995, wiping out the bank's cash reserves. Leeson was arrested after an international manhunt, and spent more than three years in a Singapore jail. By contrast, Société Générale executives simply suspended Kerviel - perhaps to avoid panic selling. Executives then quietly unwound his disastrous transactions on the financial markets over the course of three days - so helping to send markets plummeting around the world...
YOUR INVESTMENTS: Prepare a shopping list. January's stock swoon may have been unsettling, but it's no reason for panic. "Someone walked up to me and asked if he should put everything in cash," says Nicholas Nicolette, principal at Sterling Financial Planning. "That was an emotional reaction." Instead, use this time to cherry-pick overlooked, undervalued stocks. "For the well-prepared investors, these down moves provide opportunities," says Jeffrey Saut, chief investment strategist at Raymond James Financial. Just make sure to go bargain-shopping within the confines of a calm-headed, long-term strategy...