The IT operations services provider rocketed as much as 154.8% to 147.8 yuan ($21.64) Friday before closing at 102.90 yuan ($15.06), 77.4% above its IPO price of 58 yuan $8.499).
Its flotation on the London Stock Exchange last autumn was criticised for selling shares in the company too cheaply, as Royal Mail's shares rocketed as much as 87% above the initial share price of 330p in the first few days after it was listed on the stock market.
In the US Bible Belt, divorce and cohabitation rates are rocketing, by as much as 200% over a decade ago.
"I would not look at our activity as a rocket ship as much as building a base... we didn't even have a presence a few years ago".
And as Musk notes, the inside of his Dragon 2 rocket offers about as much space as a sport utility vehicle.
Iran cloaks its advanced rocket work in as much secrecy as possible, making it hard for Western analysts to discern the details.
At the other end of the spectrum are turbocharged, pressurized, 350-m.p.h., high-altitude rocket ships costing as much as $500,000 to build, with all-weather performance comparable to that of a World War II fighter.
The third and fourth stages burned properly, but because of the added weight of the nose cone, the rocket did not accelerate as much as necessary.
In the past year premiums for all types of property-and-casualty policies have rocketed, in some cases as much as three- or fourfold; they show no sign of letting up.
In the late 1990s and 2000s a pay war ensued — which saw junior solicitor salaries rocket from £30,000 to as much as £100,000 — as firms fought it out for the best graduates.
Yesterday, the cost of insuring $1m of Spain's sovereign debt rocketed to $162,000£103,00000), twice as much as for UK bonds and about four times the cost of insuring Germany's bonds, according to Markit, the credit data provider.
