black-swan event

See also: black swan event

English

Noun

black-swan event (plural black-swan events)

  1. Alternative form of black swan event.
    • 2009 March 13, Jonathan Chevreau, “The perennial search for protection: An advisor with an options licence beats reverse ETFs”, in National Post, volume 11, number 114, Toronto, Ont.: National Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page FP7, column 5:
      Bear ETFs may be potentially useful tools and your advisor doesn’t need an options license to use them. But if you want to protect your portfolios against black-swan events, it’s wise to use an advisor with an options license.
    • 2023 March 27, Julia Sulek, “All bets are off: How a poker game launched Silicon Valley Bank’s four-decade ride on the tech wave – and a bad gamble 42 years later ended it all”, in Post-Bulletin, volume 98, number N/A, Rochester, Minn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:
      Tech companies across the region and around the globe had come to expect white-glove treatment from Silicon Valley Bank, not a black-swan event.
    • 2024 April 13, Joshua Chong, “‘We have to decide that the arts matter enough to invest in’”, in Saturday Star, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page C7, column 1:
      It’s difficult to compare the pandemic to previous so-called “black-swan events” that have detrimentally affected the arts sector, said [Kelsey] Jacobson, because few historical events have equalled the pandemic’s scale and time frame.
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