Company: PTY
Filing Date: 2025-06-06
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-137029
Chunk: 39

Company: PIMCO CORPORATE & INCOME OPPORTUNITY FUND
Filing Date: 2025-06-06
Form: 424B5
Chunk 39
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 the Fund. Even when markets perform well, there is no assurance that the investments held by the Fund will increase in value along with the broader market. In addition, market risk includes the risk that geopolitical and other events will disrupt the economy on a national or global level. For instance, war, terrorism, social unrest, recessions, supply chain disruptions, market manipulation, government defaults, government shutdowns, political changes, diplomatic developments or the imposition of sanctions and other similar measures, public health emergencies (such as the spread of infectious diseases, pandemics and epidemics), natural/environmental disasters, climate-change and climate related events can all negatively impact the securities markets, which could cause the Fund to lose value. These events could reduce consumer demand or economic output, result in market closures, changes in interest rates, inflation/deflation, travel restrictions or quarantines, and significantly adversely impact the economy. As computing technology and data analytics continually advance there has been an increasing trend towards machine driven and artificially intelligent trading systems, particularly providing such systems with increasing levels of autonomy in trading decisions. More recently, advancements in the artificial intelligence sector have rapidly developed. In light of such advancements, regulators are increasingly focused on considering regulations and market restrictions on the artificial intelligence sector. Such regulations may relate to algorithmic and other machine assisted trading strategies, including efforts to require pre-testing of such techniques, to impose automatic volume controls and/or to impose liability for negative or manipulative market impacts of such trading. Such restrictions may also impair the operation of fully autonomous trading systems and technologies, either by design or inadvertently. In addition, such technologies are relatively recent developments and may be subject to one or more undetected errors, defects or security vulnerabilities. Some such errors may only be discovered after a product or service has been used by end customers or after substantial operations in the market place. Any exploitable errors or security vulnerabilities discovered after such products are in wide spread operation could result in substantial loss of revenues or assets, or material liabilities or sanctions. The potential speed of such trading technology may exacerbate the impact of any such flaws, particularly where such flaws are exploited by other artificially intelligent systems and may act to impair or prevent the intervention of a human control. The current contentious domestic political environment, as well as political and diplomatic events within the United States and abroad, such as presidential elections in the U.S. or abroad or the U.S. government’s inability at times to agree on a long-term budget and deficit reduction plan, has in the past resulted, and may in the future result