Show me numbers » financial crisis http://www.showmenumbers.com This is the Blog of Adam Parker on numbers and relevance Sat, 17 Mar 2018 17:01:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 Lucky number 8? http://www.showmenumbers.com/economy/lucky-number-8 http://www.showmenumbers.com/economy/lucky-number-8#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:27:28 +0000 http://www.showmenumbers.com/?p=105 There was a lot of talk during the Olympics about how the Chinese consider the number 8 to be lucky as the word for “8” sounds very similar to wealth. Well following on from my post on Tuesday about financial media language I couldn’t go home without a quick word on today’s events on the stock market. Shares have surged today with the FTSE-100 closing 8.8% up, it’s single biggest gain in a day and for once, unlike my earlier comments, any hyperbole will get no argument from me. In fact surged seems a little conservative, rocketed wouldn’t be overdoing it.

Will this “double 8″ change prove to be lucky? We can only wait and see, but I suspect we may not find out the answer to that question for quite a while yet. In the meantime we may all need to keep a thesaurus close at hand :)

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