Blame cable television peddling panic to keep our eyes glued to the TV, e.g.
But occasionally the markets allow panic to overcome common sense and this is one of those times.
"This feels a little bit like a panic to the upside, " said Maury Fertig, chief investment officer at Relative Value Partners.
Responses to the outage ranged from panic to snark as engineers made cracks about the wisdom of updating your infrastructure first thing on Monday morning.
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But far from the mass ruination envisioned by these proselytizers, most of the long-term top-performing investment letters are using the panic to find great buying opportunities.
The task for markets once the current panic to get away from all risk subsides, will be reassessing the outlook for economic growth and corporate earnings under the changing conditions of a potential Great Austerity period.
Experts say if Papandreou does not survive the confidence vote Friday night an early election in Greece would have to be held, which would mean several more weeks of uncertainty that would allow the financial panic to potentially engulf already teetering Italy.
Indeed, in the past, Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ), the world's biggest drug company, owed much of the sales volume of its epilepsy medicine Neurontin to off-label use for pain and for disorders ranging from panic to bipolar disorder.
When stock prices imploded during the recent recession, more than a few corporate leaders, in their panic to explain dramatic losses to shareholders (particularly while it was still early in the recession cycle), found the opportunity to suddenly and publicly question other officers for minute or nonexistent infractions.
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But the main antidote to panic has to be reform, above all in Italy.
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Severn Trent Water urged people not to panic and to do all they could to conserve water.
So if we want to panic, there is something real to panic about.
"As expected in such situation people started to panic, started to sell Bitcoin in mass (panic sale) resulting in an increase of trade that ultimately froze the trade engine, " it said.
The IMF's move seemed more political than economic in nature and was intended more to break a panic than to establish a plan for growth and to create a course toward solvency.
IMF's failure to stem the financial panic and to anticipate its severity.
That is how some peddlers of Germany's open-ended property funds have responded to reactions, verging on panic, to the closure of two such funds since early December.
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He has not used his newfound authority to hack at the root of the current panic, the regulatory mandate to mark these assets down to panic prices, even on the balance sheets of those companies who are not engaged in panic selling.
Some believe that full disclosure could cause locals to panic and foreign tourists to stay away.
Wang urged people not to panic and urged them to immediately seek medical treatment if they think they were stabbed.
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The batting order remained the same but Ian Bell and Matt Prior seemed to panic, Prior trying to give himself room and edging for nought in the second over.
Police used tear gas in an effort to control the crowd, but this appears to have created panic and led to a stampede.
As the final whistle approached Villa began to panic and, after failing to clear Salif Diao's long ball forward, Whelan beat Friedel with a crisp strike from outside the box.
The point of Break Out, other than to force the uncommitted to panic and quit, is to simulate a chaotic environment, and teach the class how to remain focused and calm while relying on each other, despite the most miserable and stressful conditions.
The banking board is worried in case panic spreads to depositors at other Islamic financial institutions.
Whether epic or merely annoying, when does the January panic begin to feed on itself?
Many, many organizations who are reacting in panic attempt to lie or cover up a mistake.
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Water utilities see no need to panic, but consumers seem determined to take precautions.
Panic spreads to Europe as London and Paris markets crash and the New York Stock Exchange closes for 10 days.
There are many reasons to merge--quick growth, competitive advantage with suppliers and distributors, adding valuable customers or technology, global expansion, survival, panic, to name just a few.
Ceop, the government law enforcement agency tasked with tracking down online sex offenders, called for a panic button to be installed on social networking sites last November.
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