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Business buzzwords: 2007 market decline

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The market decline on Tuesday, February 27th, 2007, was triggered by the 'Shanghai Sneeze', a steep fall in stock prices on China's Shanghai market, which triggered big declines in other stock markets around the world.

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Style drift is a serious problem for clients because it distorts asset allocation and undermines performance when styles rotate; value managers who have slowly changed over the past three years toward more favored growth stocks are regretting those moves, but not as much as their clients.

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China has just announced that it is going to come off the dollar peg currency arrangement, but in fact this is a very dirty float, since the trading price of the US dollar against the renminbi will now float within a trading band of plus or minus 0.3 per cent, while the band of other currencies against the renminbi will be set by the central bank.

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Energy exchanges offer crack spreads as futures, where both legs of the combination (crude oil and an oil product) can be traded in one single transaction; these derivatives help refineries to offset or manage their risks, but investors can also use these instruments.

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