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They could have come to an agreement to use buffer stocks to limit price movements or been more creative with the use of strategic reserves of oil; a public announcement that stocks were being run down would have burned the fingers of the speculators given the highly-leveraged nature of trading and the herd-like mentality of traders.

Glencore could dynamite the commodity boom 2011

Until we as a country reject lynch-mob, herd-like mentality, it will continue for executives that different than the majority.

Steele says he has 'slimmer margin' for error 2010

If herd-like global financiers, watching 24/7 TV screens from their own holiday villas, decide that London is not as safe a city in which to invest, work or own expensive property – that props up the capital's overheated housing market – then sterling, the FTSE index and sale of Treasury gilts might feel the kind of heat no fire brigade can extinguish.

Could attempt to play it cool be a 'crisis, what crisis' moment for Cameron? 2011

It matters little that the actions the segregated men and women performed in Neshat's films and photographs are ritualistically ambiguous, prone to portentous signification and spectacle, or appear poetically obscure, even absurd men marching herd-like through a desert; women forming a huddle on their knees to dig a hole in the desert with their bare hands as they become encircled by fire.

G. Roger Denson: Shirin Neshat: Artist of the Decade G. Roger Denson 2010

And Wall Street is also prone to herd-like tendencies.

Wall Street Said 'Buy, Buy, Buy' BP Stock As Gulf Crisis Unfolded 2010

In another entry, he describes encounters with wild ostriches, noting how herd-like, observant and skittish they are.

In-Depth Exclusive: Diary of a Madman - Rare Mengele Memoir Unearthed by Auctioneer 2010

I believe we're in an age where a view of humanity as dark and "herd-like" should not govern public relations.

Mike Schwager: The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth: In Media and PR 2010

It matters little that the actions the segregated men and women performed in Neshat's films and photographs are ritualistically ambiguous, prone to portentous signification and spectacle, or appear poetically obscure, even absurd men marching herd-like through a desert; women forming a huddle on their knees to dig a hole in the desert with their bare hands as they become encircled by fire.

G. Roger Denson: Shirin Neshat: Artist of the Decade G. Roger Denson 2010

And Wall Street is also prone to herd-like tendencies.

Wall Street Said 'Buy, Buy, Buy' BP Stock As Gulf Crisis Unfolded 2010

Banks that are not TBTF appear to have succumbed less to the herd-like mentality that brought their larger peers to their knees.

Richard Fisher, Top Fed Official: Too Big To Fail Lives On, Only Way Out Is To Shrink Megabanks 2010