Ting Hai effect 丁蟹效應

Ting Hai effect (aka Adam Cheng effect)
繁:丁蟹效應;秋官效應
简:丁蟹效应;秋官效应

The local stock market promptly plunged 20 percent over the following few weeks, kicking off a phenomenon called the “Adam Cheng effect” or “Ting Hai effect”.

Cheng, E. (2015, April 17). The TV show that makes a stock market drop. CNBC. Retrieved from http://www.cnbc.com/id/102597282.

The gruesome ending was the talk of the town and came to be seen as a curse when the Hang Seng Index lost more than 1,200 points, or 20 per cent, within a month after the series. In what has become known as the Ting Hai effect, observers point to sudden, unexplained declines in the stock market when a Cheng programme or film is released.

Chou, O. (2015, April 30). Hong Kong actor Adam Cheng says stock market influence is just fiction. South China Morning Post. Retrieved from http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/1781524/hong-kong-actor-adam-cheng-says-stock-market-influence-just.

Actor Adam Cheng Siu-chow may complain. If not for the mainland’s policy rumba, he’s supposed to steal the show today with the screening of The Greed of Man – the TV drama notorious for the Ting Hai effect that the market dives whenever Cheng appears on the silver screen.

Ma, M. (2015, April 20). Is it a stick? Is it a carrot? Or is it … The Standard. pp. 20.