Identify and briefly describe an event that affected a range of financial markets in recent years. Illustrate how your identified event impacted financial markets and instruments traded on these markets, for example, the impact on the equity markets, bond markets, FX markets etc. Analyse how prices and/or demands of financial instruments have been affected.

An evaluation of the impact of a recent event on financial markets

1. Identify and briefly describe an event that affected a range of financial markets in recent years. This event should be non-company specific and occurred within the past ten years.

2. Illustrate how your identified event impacted financial markets and instruments traded on these markets, for example, the impact on the equity markets, bond markets, FX markets etc. Analyse how prices and/or demands of financial instruments have been affected. You can use factual (statistical and/or financial) information to aid your discussion.

3. Research and discuss what measures financial institutions and financial intermediaries have taken to manage the crisis or consequences caused by your identified event. Discuss the intended and/or actual effects of these measures in mitigating the impact on the financial markets and economies.

4. Your essay should be well structured (use suitable section headings where appropriate), original (eg. no copy and paste), written with clarity, coherent, correctly referenced (both in-text and in the Reference list), and free from grammar and spelling mistakes.