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The Standard & Poor's 500 U.S. index prior to the October 1987 crash on Wall Street (WS) and the U.S. dollar against Deutschmark (DM) and Swiss Franc (CHF) prior to the collapse in mid-1985. The continuous lines are fits with a power law modified by log-periodic oscillations. See refs. 58–64.
