Money Pours Out of Emerging Markets at Rate Unseen Since Lehman
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This week, investors relived a nightmare.
As markets from China to South Africa tumbled, they pulled $2.7 billion out of developing economies on Aug. 24. That matches a Sept. 17, 2008 exodus during the week Lehman Brothers went under. The collapse of the U.S. investment bank was a seminal moment in the timeline of the global financial crisis.