crisis

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The stock’s biggest spikes in that time came during the 2022 energy crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the current global shock; it opened at $191.41 on Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Bonds sold off sharply when the crisis began, on fears that it would — as the Dallas Fed warns — cause a sharp rise in inflation.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

Cipriani claimed that he provided Shell with “sophisticated, high-value crisis communications services,” according to his suit.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

The peaceful resolution to the crisis, which had brought the world close to nuclear conflict, was “the greatest defeat in our history,” LeMay added, according to historian Robert Dallek.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

From 1572 onwards Aristotelian philosophy was facing a crisis from which it could not escape without sacrificing fundamental claims that it had long regarded as unquestionable.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton