Which Piece of Speculative Fiction Had the Greatest Single-Day Stock Market Impact? – Stefan Buchholz DOT com

The methodology — tracking S&P 500 daily moves for post-1986 releases and DJIA moves for pre-1986 ones — crowned The Matrix as the all-time leader, its March 1999 US debut coinciding with a 1.11% drop in the index. Citrini’s “The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis” came in a close second at -1.04%. On the positive end, the 2013 release of Her, a film about a man falling in love with an AI agent, coincided with the largest gain in the set at +1.66%.

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