False news shock - Heritage Oil edition

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Here’s another example of false news shock - the tendency of erroneous news to move markets even though it has proved to be wrong. It concerns an exploration company called Heritage Oil, which has found a serious amount of oil in Kurdistan.

Shortly after 2.00pm BST on Wednesday its shares went into reverse:

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