Dalam keadaan seperti itu posisi pasar negara berkembang menjadi kurang beruntung karena pemodal besar cenderung melikuidasi posisinya di negara berkembang untuk menutupi kerugiannya di tempat lain serta berpindah ke instrumen yang dianggap lebih aman surat utang di AS atau bentuk kas.
The situation had more or less created uncertainty for market players and put the developing countries' market into an unfavorable position because investors tended to liquidate their position in these countries to offset their loss in other places and move to other safer instruments US bonds or cash money.