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6 unusual facts about Market liquidity


Complex event processing

Today, a wide variety of financial applications use CEP, including profit, loss, and risk management systems, order and liquidity analysis, quantitative trading and signal generation systems, and others.

Economy of Second Life

Ginko's assets were primarily invested in things of either poor to no liquidity, or virtual securities that were then trading at significantly under their purchase price.

OBX Index

The OBX Index is a stock market index which lists the 25 most liquid companies on the main index of the Oslo Stock Exchange in Norway.

Panic of 1930

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta opened the discount window to solvent member banks which had illiquid securities and needed liquidity.

Pour-over will

In the jurisdictions in the U.S. which allow a pour-over will, testators do not usually put all of their assets into trusts for the reasons of liquidity, convenience, or simply because they did not get around to do so before they died.

Sweep account

#Most of the extra cash above the average balance will be invested into a money market, CD, or some other form of investment that can be easily liquidated.



see also

Lasse Heje Pedersen

He was the winner of the 2011 Bernacer Prize to the best European economist under the age of 40 for his original research contributions on how the interaction between market liquidity risk and funding liquidity risk can create liquidity spirals and systemic financial crises.