Flight-to-quality

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A flight-to-quality is a stock market phenomenon occurring when investors sell what they perceive to be higher risk investments and purchase more safe investments instead, such as US Treasuries.

[edit] See also

• Financial contagion
• Financial crisis
• Flight-to-liquidity
• Safe haven
• Stock market crash

[edit] External links

• Flight-to-Quality or Flight-to-Liquidity?
• A Primer on Flight to Quality

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