contagion effect
Example Sentences
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As funds are gated, investors have been running to raise liquidity from other funds, creating a contagion effect.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026
Panmure Liberum’s Joachim Klement says last week’s Microsoft jolt triggered a contagion effect across trendy assets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
Harris noted that many were starting to wonder whether profiling the shooter is something we should even be doing at all, for fear of a contagion effect.
From Slate • Jan. 27, 2023
The collapse of FTX has sparked worries of a contagion effect on other firms already reeling from dampened crypto market this year.
From Reuters • Nov. 22, 2022
The state of the international economy, the inequitable income distribution in the United States, and, perhaps most importantly, the contagion effect of panic all played roles in the continued downward spiral of the economy.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
