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Market break

Market Break

A sudden, unexpected change in a security's price or in a market's value. While a market break could indicate either upward or downward change, the connotation is negative. Especially on the futures market, a market break means a steep decline in price, usually the result of a natural disaster affecting the underlying assets.

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And, moreover, when you come right down to the bedrock, knight-errantry is WORSE than pork; for whatever happens, the pork's left, and so somebody's benefited anyway; but when the market breaks, in a knight-errantry whirl, and every knight in the pool passes in his checks, what have you got for assets?

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Meanwhile Jet2.com is already attempting to spread some festive cheer with the launch today of their biggest ever range of Christmas market breaks for 2015, adding Berlin and Copenhagen to its existing Vienna trip.

easyJet launches news flights from Newcastle and Jet2 adds Christmas routes; The airline celebrated the launch with Northumberland ice cream - meanwhile Jet2 has announced new flights to the Berlin Christmas markets

Cities in Eastern Europe will be the cheapest Christmas market breaks this winter, according to a Post Office report.

Budapest at its best; travel NEWS

[ClickPress, Thu Nov 03 2011] Door2Tour.com, the website tour consolidator, has announced that people are thinking ahead to the festive season and beginning their search for Christmas Market breaks.

Door2Tour.com reveals UK Christmas markets prove to be more popular in 2011

But if you would rather go on an escorted trip, a company called Great Rail Journeys has a selection of four and five-day Christmas market breaks - with departures between late November and mid December - to France, Germany and Switzerland.

TRAVEL: TRAIN FAIRS; Go by rail to sample Christmas markets

For more information on our fantastic Christmas Market breaks or to request a brochure please call (0191) 201 6000 or (01642) 564422.

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For details and a booking form write to: Christmas Market Breaks, Reader Services Dept, Evening Telegraph, Coventry CV1 1FP.

A festive shopping break; READER HOLIDAYS

Clearly, there have been market crashes (1929), market breaks (1987) and market corrections (1989) when the prices of all securities plummeted precipitously.

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