A 15 per cent
plunge in the share price is a sobering lesson.
In response to this, Reuters reported that «German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel accused Deutsche Bank on Sunday of blaming speculators for last week's
plunge in its share price when the bank had itself made speculation its business.»
With
each plunge in the share price, Wall Street analysts revised lower their target price but talked about how a turnaround was just around the corner.
In addition to the sudden
plunge in share price, trading volumes were extremely high at 50 times the 30 - day average.
Investors seem to believe that those yields are relatively safe, unlike yields from oil and gas partnerships, some of which are in the stratosphere due to
the plunge in share prices.
Max India, the majority holder in the private non-bank life insurer Max Life, witnessed
a plunge in its share prices subsequent to the group's demerger into three separate entities.
Not exact matches
That being said, the lack of progress
in NXP's merger with Qualcomm continues to weigh on this stock, and the limited amount of new merger information
in this release probably played a larger part
in today's
plunging share price than the actual report.
The
share price plunge represents a 42 percent fall from the Snapchat owner's all - time high stock
price of $ 29.44
in March, and highlights the waning confidence that investors have on the company.
FireEye's
share price plunged more than 70 percent
in less than three months last year, after Chief Executive Dave DeWalt and other insiders sold
shares, spurring investors to take a more critical look at the firm's finances and valuation.
Its
share price has
plunged to just over $ 6
in September from $ 70
in 2011 with much speculation it may not survive into 2013.
Regulators worldwide began investigations, brands and surfers (including Playboy, Elon Musk, and WhatsApp founder Brian Acton) deleted their accounts on the social network, and Facebook's
share price plunged, erasing all of its gains over the past year
in just two weeks.
The rapidity with which Citigroup's
share price plunged during the financial crash
in 2008 is likely a key reason that Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari is pounding the table for today's Wall Street banks to hold more equity capital.
Commodities
prices plunged and pulled down mining stocks, but the rebound
in share prices and financings was swift and strong, said Andrew Pollard, president of the Mining Recruitment Group
in Vancouver.
As this chart shows,
in the past few months proppant suppliers have seen their
share prices plunge between 13.5 % and a painful 64 % for Carbo Ceramics, the leading ceramic proppant manufacturer.
It had always been earmarked as a takeover target but a series of mishaps
in the US mainly, caused the
share price to
plunge and opened the door for offshore raiders such as KKR.
RIM is
in a tough place, with a
plunging share price, and an unclear platform future, which makes it hard to get a truly attractive, can't - refuse offer, even though Wall Street types have tried to get Samsung and HTC to bite as well, says Reuters.
One can look back to the late 1990s and early 2000 when technology
shares were
priced at more than 100x years
in earnings and every hairdresser, cabdriver and relative were
plunging their life savings into stocks.
After a headlong
plunge in the two firms»
share prices (see chart 1), Hank Paulson, the treasury secretary, felt obliged to make an emergency announcement on July 13th.
That market is
in a complete collapse as
plunging prices are forcing investors to sell
shares.
With the
shares trading below $ 1
in December 2010 because of what I perceived as an inflated fear that those controlling the last mile of the internet might control transport
pricing, I took a (small)
plunge.
The
share price had
plunged to $ 2 (it would later hit a low of 33 cents) from a high of $ 67 the previous year, wiping out $ 19 billion
in market capitalization.
General Growth's
share price plunged to about 25 cents
in mid-November from more than $ 40 at the beginning of 2008.
«Strong home
price appreciation has turned into a double - edged sword for the housing market as it boosted the net
share of consumers saying it's a good time to sell to a record high, surpassing the
plunging good time to buy indicator for the first time
in the history of the survey.»
A slowdown
in the Chinese economy and related
plunge in commodity
prices cut almost $ 11 trillion of value from global
shares in the third quarter.
«The gap between the
share of consumers who think the economy is on the wrong track and the
share who think it is on the right track has widened, nearly matching its reading last August, when concerns regarding China and oil
prices led to the biggest stock market
plunge in years.