As property prices crumbled, its bad loans swelled.
As property prices crumbled, the bank's portfolio of bad loans swelled.
With stock prices crumbling for most of the year, investors indeed chose to put their money into different asset classes.
As the financial crisis erupted in the autumn, trade between the United States and the rest of the world plummeted, and the trade deficit narrowed sharply as oil prices crumbled, demand for foreign-made goods dried up and consumers began to save money they once spent freely.
It has done so since prices crumbled in 1993-94.
The airline sector, already reeling and running out of options to deal with soaring fuel prices, crumbled Friday, including Continental Airlines and United Airlines, which both announced capacity reductions and other cost-cutting initiatives this week.
For investors, anyone holding substantial cash savings would welcome deflation if it meant a chance to buy real estate or stocks at significantly lower prices — as some did when housing and stock prices crumbled during the financial crisis.
Many Venezuelans didn't bother voting because they're fed up with Maduro's increasingly autocratic actions, as well as the food shortages, exorbitant prices, crumbling hospitals, and violent protests that have come with the nation's worst economic crisis ever.
The firm, the world's largest publicly traded hedge fund, seen its stock price crumble.
The Abercrombie revenues, profits, and share price, crumbled.
