New York Stock Exchange composite trading, though they still remain below their pre-MF Global collapse level.
It was devastated by earthquakes and by the global collapse of commodity prices, particularly coffee's.
News cycles aside, the enduring legacy of the MF Global collapse will play out on two larger fronts that speak to both public policy and investor perception.
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They did so successfully with "Bethany" and "Jackie, " and now comes "Collapse, " playwright Allison Moore's trenchant comedy set in the beginning of the 2009 global economic collapse.
Japan's actions, she said, had helped "stave off an even more dire global economic collapse".
There were headlines every day about the possibility of a global economic collapse.
After all, Bernie did not cause a global financial collapse.
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Also up there is the fallout from a global economic collapse, possibly resulting from a state of peak oil -- the point where oil production reaches its peak and thereafter goes into freefall.
In the financial crisis of 2007-2008, it took a massive coordinated effort by global central banks to pull the world back from the brink of what would have been a total global financial collapse.
The global slowdown has, naturally, led to a collapse in global trade, which is consistent with the decline in currency reserves.
"The negligent conduct identified in this report foreseeably contributed to MF Global's collapse, " the new report says.
Politicians may be willing to borrow and pass something like TARP even despite popular opposition if enough economists scream that they must or the global economy will collapse.
But at the same time, we don't want the whole global economy to collapse, so that's the argument in favor of taking the moral hazard risk and just bailing them out.
But the scale of collapse was broadened and deepened by the freezing up of the machinery of global finance, a dramatic collapse in confidence and stock-slashing.
Despite the MF Global precedent, the collapse of Peregrine came as a surprise to many.
Facing a collapse in global trade and consumer demand, firms slashed production and cut their payrolls to match.
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In Hong Kong today, negotiators from most of the world's nations reached a deal to save global trade talks from collapse.
The editor of the survey, Phil Baty, said uncertainty in education in England could see world-class universities collapse into global mediocrity.
The World Bank said on June 22nd that world-trade volumes, reeling from a drastic collapse in global demand (see chart), will shrink by nearly 10% this year.
But the damage is done: those temporary factors triggered a collapse in global demand that has now spread way beyond the Anglo-Saxon economies at the heart of the credit crisis.
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Now that stocks and the bond market are no longer priced for the collapse of the global economy, the tricky part begins.
The near collapse of the global financial system scared everybody to death.
The collapse of the global trade talks may itself worsen the backlash.
The first annual survey published in 2009 coincided with possibly even greater economic global turbulence linked to the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers.
To put it bluntly, the measures military leaders are contemplating to cope with budget cuts amount to a collapse in the global readiness of the joint force.
Corzine, who stepped down as MF Global CEO soon after the collapse, is the former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs, a former Democratic U.S. senator and the former governor of New Jersey.
Wednesday is the one-year anniversary of the collapse of MF Global, and several months after MF Global blew up, Peregrine Financial Group went bankrupt after its founder admitted to stealing customer funds.
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About a year ago, in the wake of the collapse of MF Global, the market set its crosshairs on Jefferies, another firm feared to have excessive exposure to eurozone sovereign debt.
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The Nature article, also published Thursday, said that such shifts in weather patterns and human-induced changes could have sudden and unpredictable effects on the global ecosystem, including the collapse of food supplies and other problems.
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