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. Risk is a Concept that denotes the precise probability of specific eventualities Treasury securities are Government bonds issued by the United States Department of the Treasury through the Bureau of the Public Debt.

See also

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

External links

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

References

Financial contagion refers to the phenomenon when one Country 's economy is negatively affected because of changes in the Asset prices of another country's The term financial crisis is applied broadly to a variety of situations in which some financial institutions or assets suddenly lose a large part of their value A flight-to-liquidity is a financial market phenomenon occurring when investors sell what they perceive to be less liquid or higher Risk investments and purchase A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of Stock prices across a significant cross-section of a Stock market.

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