Summary Box: Soccer beats out stocks in ECB study

By The Associated Press

February 14, 2012

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SET A FINANCIAL GOOOOOOAAAAAL!!!: A wide-ranging study from the European Central Bank found that when the World Cup is being played, many stock exchanges across the globe declare a truce and trading slows measurably.

YELLOW CARD: The study said that when a country's team was playing, the number of trades dropped by 45 percent and volumes were 55 percent lower during the 2010 World Cup.

HE SHOOTS, HE SCORES: Trading fell even more severely if there was scoring action. During some games, every goal that was scored coincided with another brief five percent drop in activity.