Shattered by his friend's suddenandviolent death, an increasingly resolute Mehmet places Berzan's corpse into a plain wooden coffin and vows to bury him in his native village, near the Iraqi border.
It was this kind of violentandsudden volatility that caused the highly leveraged Long-Term Capital Management fund to require a bailout by Wall Street institutions in the fall of 1998.
Markets are prone to unpredictable human behavior, violent economic swings, powerful natural disasters, sudden commodity shortages and crippling cyber outages.