English translation of "crack boursier" - "Stock market crash"

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192 months ago

Geea (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	crack boursier
Context:	catastrophe en série, crack boursier
Keywords:	That's the answer to this question: In your own words, please describe your reaction to the image you just saw /// I did not see the image, though...TIA

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192 months ago

wrote:

stock market slump (down)

192 months ago

Odile Peltier - English-French translator wrote:

Financial Crash

My comment:

It depends on the asset classes affected by the crash. The usual terminology is "stock market crash" but when the entire financial markets are affected such as the global deleveraging period that took place in 2008 when stocks, bonds and commodities such as Gold usually acting as a buffer against stock markets uncertainty all went down heavily, "financial crash" is more appropriate.

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My boyfriend is Head of Investment Strategy in a private bank.

192 months ago

Odile Peltier - English-French translator wrote:

Stock market crash

My comment:

The correct spelling in French is krach, but they don't teach spelling anymore!

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192 months ago

myrthe wrote:

Agree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market_crash

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