"It's just a protracted sell-off.
Brenda Kelly, senior markets strategist with IG Group, added: "Markets dislike uncertainty so, although the notion of shallower liquidity might have had the consequence of a protracted sell-off, market participants can now focus on the underlying issues without the constant 'will they, won't they' taper concerns".
He will not go for a protracted selling process along the lines of Aston Villa in this past year.
This isn't just a protracted sell-off.
The survivors have closed plants, sold property and, after protracted deliberation, barely tiptoed into developing markets.
Yahoo's protracted troubles have disappointed investors who have continued to sell its shares.
Mr. Afremov was paid $275 million in 2005 to sell his interest in the AGA Medical Corporation after a protracted court battle for control of the company.
In a bankruptcy, a company's financial and commercial creditors will often sell their claims in order to exit the protracted, contentious bankruptcy process.
The railway company was unwilling to sell, and it was not until 1895, after protracted negotiation and legal battles that the transfer was agreed.
Only in Washington, where changing social attitudes from the rest of the country generally arrive with all the speed of a Pilgrim vessel, is protracted incumbency still considered some kind of ace-in-the-hole selling point.
Worse odds on the track have made it tougher for one- and two-car teams like 10-time Cup Series champion Petty Enterprises, whose protracted and very public search for capital came to an end recently with the announcement it would sell a controlling interest in the team to private equity firm Boston Ventures.
