First, there's usually
a huge spike in volumes and trading activity as speculators scramble to adjust positions and react to opportunities.
Not exact matches
-- this
huge drought, dust storms starting up
in bigger
volumes again, the Pakistan flood that displaced 20 million people, the Russian drought and fires that led to the highest
spike in food prices ever recorded — that has an impact on poor people around the world.
Just prior to the explosion
in price, Bitcoin exchange Gemini which is operated by the Winklevoss twins, experienced a
huge spike in trading
volume.
There's been a
huge spike in search
volume for this story over the last couple of days.