black-swan event

plural black-swan events

1. alternativeAlternative form of black swan event.

   Tech companies across the region and around the globe had come to expect white-glove treatment from Silicon Valley Bank, not a black-swan event.

   2023 March 27, Julia Sulek, “All bets are off: How a poker game launched Silicon Valley Bank’s four-decade ride on the tech wave – and a bad gamble 42 years later ended it all”, in Post-Bulletin, volume 98, number N/A, Rochester, Minn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2

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   Bear ETFs may be potentially useful tools and your advisor doesn’t need an options license to use them. But if you want to protect your portfolios against black-swan events, it’s wise to use an advisor with an options license.

   2009 March 13, Jonathan Chevreau, “The perennial search for protection: An advisor with an options licence beats reverse ETFs”, in National Post, volume 11, number 114, Toronto, Ont.: National Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page FP7, column 5

   It’s difficult to compare the pandemic to previous so-called “black-swan events” that have detrimentally affected the arts sector, said [Kelsey] Jacobson, because few historical events have equalled the pandemic’s scale and time frame.

   2024 April 13, Joshua Chong, “‘We have to decide that the arts matter enough to invest in’”, in Saturday Star, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page C7, column 1