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<\/a>Nikkei - during Kobe Earthquake<\/p><\/div>\n
It is obvious from the chart that the Earthquake\u00a0occurred\u00a0during the down trend and did not create any reversal on its own.<\/p>\n
Now let us a look at the Latur Earthquake that left nearly 8000 dead in India and its impact on Sensex.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Sensex and Latur Earthquake<\/p><\/div>\n
What about the Tsunami of 2004 that left 230,000 dead in Asia?<\/p>\n
<\/a>Nifty during Tsunami04<\/p><\/div>\n
Looking at the charts, if one were to think no natural disaster occurred on Dec 26th 2004, he\/she can be excused!!<\/p>\n
The picture is similar even if one looked at the man-made disasters like Bomb blasts and terrorist attacks!<\/p>\n
The infamous WTC attack:<\/p>\n
While the reaction may have been pronounced, would it have mattered had it occured when the market trend was up?<\/p>\n So let us look at markets reaction to mumbai serial blasts of August 2005:<\/p>\n Nifty during the Aug 03 Serial blast<\/p><\/div>\n So, the next time you hear someone on media say that such and such exogenous events is causing the markets to decline you might want give these charts a thought. While there might be initial knee jerk reactions, these events do not even cause short term reversals<\/em>!!! All one has to know is, what is the trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When earthquake\/tsunami struck Japan on Friday, I’m sure you would have heard in the media how this was affecting the sentiments of the markets. Here are few things one must know : Let us take a look at the powerful Kobe Earthquake that struck Japan in 1995\u00a0and caused $102.5 billion damage: It is obvious from […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[52,55,11,92,54,53],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-markets","tag-2004-tsunami","tag-kobe-earthquake","tag-linkedin","tag-nifty","tag-nikkei-225","tag-sensex","category-45-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashthechaos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashthechaos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashthechaos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashthechaos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashthechaos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashthechaos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashthechaos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashthechaos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashthechaos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashthechaos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>