The shares swiftly tumbled from over $70 apiece to $46.
But once the deal was announced on Monday, the shares swiftly fell.
History now tells us that shares swiftly recovered: two years later London's blue-chip index was trading again at 1987 highs, and subsequently soared away during the 1990s.
Healy, perhaps anxious to remind everyone that this is his stage and he is not overly keen on sharing it, swiftly intercepted Michael Stocklasa's slapdash free-kick and deftly controlled the dropping ball before beating Peter Jehle with a stunning left-foot strike curled into the top corner from just outside the area.
The deal swiftly collapsed.
As such, following the Paris attacks, the British government rightly opted into the EU's Prum system, which will swiftly share DNA, fingerprint and vehicle registration data between member state police forces.
Televangelist Creflo Dollar was recently criticized for asking his followers to donate $300 apiece so he could buy a $65 million jet to help him "safely and swiftly share the Good News of the Gospel worldwide". .
Squire and Anderson swiftly discovered they shared much musical common ground, and were both fans of such harmony-driven artists as Simon & Garfunkel, the Byrds and the Beatles.
Fickle customers mean market share shifts swiftly, and the fortunes of companies rise and fall almost as fast.
A moment of shock at a new blow (Pearl Harbor, September 11th, a son's death on the battlefield) is swiftly followed by set-piece reactions, widely shared.
