The Tiger 影響 on 株

By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 00:00 BST, 14 May 2001

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IF YOU want to make a sure-解雇する／砲火／射撃 殺人，大当り on the 株式市場, stay at home and watch the ゴルフ. To be more 正確な, watch whatever tournament Tiger 支持を得ようと努めるd is in. 分析家s have discovered that every time the 記録，記録的な／記録する-breaking American plays in his home country, 株 prices 急に上がる the に引き続いて day.

The tren d has been spotted over the past 13 months covering 18 tournaments - during which time the 25-year-old became the first player ever to 完全にする a clean sweep of all four ゴルフing majors and earned nearly £40m.

Each time Tiger played, the Dow Jones 索引 of blue-半導体素子 American companies showed a rise the next day, anything from ten points to 374. When he had 週末s off, the 株 宙返り／暴落するd.

The 傾向 even crossed the 大西洋. For when Tiger won the Open 選手権 at St Andrews last year, the FTSE-100 株 索引 also rose the に引き続いて day.

However, it does not seem to 事柄 whether the greatest golfer ever won the 競争 - or 苦しむd one of his rare losses. ゴルフ-mad 仲買人s watch him take the fairways apart on a Sunday and bring their feelgood factor to the markets on Monday.

Some 仲買人s quip that he has more 影響（力） on 塀で囲む Street than Alan Greenspan - the 長，率いる of the 連邦の Reserve, America's central bank, and 一般に 定評のある as one of the most powerful men in the world.

'It sounds crazy but the 統計（学） are true - look them up,' said one New York 基金 経営者／支配人 who 認めるs 仲買人s always try to come up with a new sports-linked 株式市場 theory to impress their 顧客s.

仲買人 Richard Cripps of 塀で囲む Street's Legg Mason said: 'We 解任する the 関係 between good things happening psychologically and market 増加するs, but they are hard to ignore.'

He pointed out that the Tiger 影響 was 類似の to another theory that 在庫／株s 一般に rise when New York has good 天候.

Tiger's perfect streak stretched from last year's US Masters in Augusta, which he lost, to last month's tournament, which he won in heart-stopping fashion on the final green to （人命などを）奪う，主張する his place in history.

The run is even more amazing considering it has been 遂行するd at a time when the American markets have been on a nervous rollercoaster ride.

The Dow Jones 索引 had weeks when it was 急落（する），激減（する）ing 20% earlier this year - but it sti ll went up after Tiger had walked off the 18th green. The only Mondays it fell were eight of the ten weeks that Tiger was on the sidelines between January this year and last week.