However, if similar phenomena occur frequently in major markets, we cannot completely deny the possibility that they would adversely affect 2  U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (2010), "Findings regarding the Market Events of May 6, 2010."
The perception in the West was that it was not dramatic because the industrialized countries were not directly touched, but, as you can see entire continents were very heavily financially hampered.