KOSPI · November 10, 2011
The day Italy's yield crossed the line
-4.94%
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 fell 4.94% on the day
- Italy's ten-year yield passed seven percent. Greece, Ireland and Portugal had each crossed that line before needing a bailout
- Italy is the third-largest economy in the euro area, larger than those three combined
- It was clear the rescue fund could not cover it, which is why the market took greater fright
- Korea falls hard on this through money flows rather than trade. When Europe has trouble, European banks call in their Asian loans first
- The problem was resolved the following year by a remark from the head of the European Central Bank
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.