Tag: Superstition
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Triskaidekaphobia (fear of Friday the 13th) and the stock market.
So, today is the day. An unlucky day, some would have it (although nobody is quite sure why or when it became so). Black cats, broken mirrors etc. Theres a branch of financial economics that looks at the effect of superstition on the stock market. It has a somewhat different story to tell about Friday…