Global stockmarkets took fright at the trade news, none more so than in China.
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Investors took fright at Walmart's announcement that its online sales have slowed considerably, sending its share price down by 10%.
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Global markets took fright at the Federal Reserve's first hint that it might taper its monetary expansion policy in 2013.
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It also dragged the euro into negative territory as investors took fright at turmoil in one of the euro zone's biggest trading partners.
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Perhaps investors already took fright at signs of inflation; bond yields had been trending upwards since the end of the second world war.
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Investors took fright at the country's wide fiscal and current-account deficits, its 25% inflation and its rapidly expanding pile of foreign-currency debt.
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That led to the 'taper tantrum' when investors took fright at the prospect that the ultra-cheap dollar funding they had grown used to would taper away.
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Last week a rout spread across emerging assets as investors took fright at the prospect of higher interest rates and less stimulus from developed market central banks.
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It is, rather, an echo of the massive stimulus unleashed back in 2009 when Chinese policy-makers took fright at the global manufacturing slump that followed the global financial crisis.
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However, as investors took fright at the governance turmoil triggered by Guerra's exit, Del Vecchio pledged to take a step back once the two-CEO structure was firmly in place.
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Sterling was a touch higher at $1.2307, recovering some of last week's losses after investors took fright at the standoff in Britain's parliament over Britain's exit from the European Union.
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Investors also took fright at the potentially major change to the business model at Europe's largest low-cost carrier, with Ryanair shares tumbling as much as 9 percent to 14.90 euros.
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But Swiss shares tumbled as investors took fright at the virus' spread in neighbouring Italy, with the Swiss Market Index trading 3.4% lower, its biggest one-day loss since August 2016.
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"Although the minutes seemed to tick a December hike as a done deal, traders took fright at their more 'data-driven' neutral stance into 2018," said Jeffrey Halley, a senior market analyst with OANDA.
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She said that although investors were not necessarily optimistic of a major thaw in relations between Russia and the West, they had grown used to the international political tensions and no longer took fright at them.
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The Italian-German spread has surged in recent months to its widest level since the 2011/2012 euro-zone debt crisis as investor took fright at the new Italian coalition government plans to boost its budget deficit.
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In U.S. stocks, banks and media companies were the biggest drags on the S&P 500 as AT&T Inc fueled concerns about video subscribers and investors took fright at comments from JPMorgan and Citigroup on consumer debt.
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The yield on 10-year British government bonds sank to its lowest level in nearly three years as investors, already anxious about the prospect of a no-deal Brexit under the country's next prime minister, took fright at the scale of the fall.
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Italian bonds and banking stocks have come under pressure in recent weeks as investors took fright at the spending plans of a coalition comprising the anti-establishment 5 Star Movement and the far-right League, which also vowed to row back on previous reforms.
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Facebook's Libra project was only announced this summer — with a slated launch of the first half of 2020 — but was quickly dealt major blows by the speedy departure of key founder members from the vehicle set up to steer the initiative, as giants including Visa, Stripe and eBay apparently took fright at the regulatory backlash.
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The idea was allegedly presented to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. It is said that during training the moose was too fearful to allow itself to be ridden into battle and took fright at the sound of gunfire. They were also said to be of too peaceful a nature for the purpose. Moose were also more susceptible to disease than horses and there was difficulty in feeding the animals which were used to foraging across large areas rather than being fed on fodder in pasture.
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Dollars started flowing out of Venezuela in the billions, and the central bank, which had always been zealous about national reserves, took fright at their growing depletion, but instead of counter-acting with incentives to reverse the outward flow, the bolivar was officially devalued by over 50% on its previous 4.30 to the dollar. The government, in brief, was not going to subsidize the bolivar at its previous rate. But the measure encouraged a further massive flight of dollars, and the government then clamped full currency control. During his presidency the inauguration of Teatro Teresa Carreno and the Metro de Caracas took place, along with the presidential election of Jaime Lusinchi of Acción Democrática.
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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel was first published in 1859 by Chapman & Hall in three volumes. The book received generally respectful reviews, though critics were often puzzled by Meredith's rather dense style, and did not all agree in their reading of the book's message, or their estimation of the author's success in presenting it.Ioan Meredith (ed.) George Meredith: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge, 1996) pp. 61–85. The book's commercial success, as with all Victorian novels, depended in large measure on the number of copies bought by the various commercial lending libraries, but the largest of them all, Mudie's, took fright at the sexual frankness of the novel and refused to stock it, casting a taint of unrespectability over Meredith's name that lasted for many years.
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Headstones were repaired or replaced, the entrance gate was repaired, the graves were numbered and a visitor's map was created. The cemetery re-opened in 2007 with a ceremony that included a performance of the Last Post by a bugler from the King's Royal Rifle Corps and a pigeon fly-past (although the birds actually took fright at the assembled crowd and flew in the opposite direction). It was attended by two holders of the PDSA Gold Medal, Jake (an explosives detection dog) and Endal (an assistance dog). Also present was Commander Stuart Hett, who had been an officer aboard and had been tasked with responding to the many letters received by the ship's heroic cat, Simon, who is buried at Ilford.
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