He had pains in his chest and arms, shortness of breath and was covered in a cold sweat.

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Benjamin Silverman, the head of research at InsiderScore, doesn't break out in a cold sweat at every headline reporting another writedown or missed quarterly earnings forecast.

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"What I had done was mask it, " he later told the San Jose Mercury News, admitting that he still occasionally woke up in a cold sweat.

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The court heard that Mr Adal still had "really bad nightmares, waking in a cold sweat" and was now too scared to stay in his kebab shop alone.

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Surveys show that some 50% to 80% of us dream about work, with a significant portion admitting they often wake up in a cold sweat and experience work nightmares once or more a week.

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The idea of having your identity tagged from birth brings many of us out in a cold sweat, and is the reason large swathes of the public remain vehemently opposed to the concept of biometrics.

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This is when you break out in a cold sweat because this is the moment you remember there is always a section asking for references and for your permission for HR to call your prior employers.

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So why are investors in such a cold sweat about Spain?

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