At night, the Roman amphitheatre glowed with the masculine swagger of imperial might, and I had to swallow my expressions of awe rather than gasp them to my husband, whose absence I felt as palpably as I would have his presence.
If I understand the report correctly, the agencies say a mutual fund company using (gasp) an algorithm to trade dumped a bunch of sell orders on the futures market, which caused a liquidity crisis that took down the market.