WhyItDropped

KOSPI · September 27, 2011

Expecting a plan to arrive

+5.02%

single-day change vs previous close

Part of a longer stretch

Six months after money reached Europe's banks

early in it · 2011-09-26 → 2012-04-03, +24.00% over the whole period

What happened that day?

  • The KOSPI rose 5.02% on the day. The previous session, 26 September, had been the bottom of this decline
  • Word spread that Europe would greatly enlarge its rescue fund
  • The market of this period rose and fell on the calendar of European summits — up on hope beforehand, back down afterwards when the substance fell short
  • The actual resolution had to wait until the ECB president's remark the following summer
  • Until then, this cycle of hope and disappointment was the market's basic rhythm
  • The rebound that began at this bottom did run on to April of the next year, though

Sources

Every figure on this page is recomputed from the original daily closing prices and checked against them at build time. The account of what happened is written from the sources listed above.