Contagion
When trouble in one market or country spreads to others, often because investors pull money from anything that looks similar, not because the others have the same problems.
Example
After Thailand floated the baht in July 1997, the Korean won fell from 890 to 1,695 per dollar by December, although Korea's economy was very different.
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