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Sanity And The Stock Market « The Dish

For a recent study, researchers in Taiwan examined the data of 469,000 patients who had been hospitalised with mental disorders, then “parsed those admissions against changes in the broad-based Taiwan Stock Exchange Capitalization Weighted Stock Index (TAIEX)”:The study found that a 1,000-point fall in the TAIEX (about two-thirds of its standard deviation) caused a daily increase of 4.71% in hospitalisations […]