Figure 4 Power-law correlations for worldwide financial indices in (Upper) absolute values of price changes (|R|) and (Lower) absolute values of trading- volume changes (|R|). We use the method described by Eqs. 7 and 8. (Upper) The average return interval t vs. threshold q (in units of standard deviation) for absolute values of trading-volume changes. For each of 28 worldwide financial indices, we calculate the corresponding t, values. Then we collect all the t values obtained from different indices, and show Tt, versus q. Up to eight standard deviations, we find a power law with exponent & = 2.41+0.06. (Lower) The average return interval tg vs. threshold q for absolute values of price changes (see Eq. 3) for different levels of aggregation. For each of five different types of aggregation reported, we find that t versus q exhibits a power law with an exponent very close to a = 3. Finally, in addition to trading-volume changes, we employ for stock price changes our procedure for identifying power-law behavior in the pdf tails described in Methods (case ii). The pdf of