Stock prices of merchants like eToys and Bluefly started plunging well in advance of the Nasdaq downswing.
Once the mortgage-backed bonds finally started plunging for the very reasons Mr. Melcher spotted long before, the dominoes moved swiftly.
Financial markets, which had been anticipating that Britain would vote to stay in, started plunging before the vote tally was complete, putting pressure on central banks and regulators to take steps to guard against a spread of the damage.
Goofy, attached by his feet to the top of a roller-coaster track and by his neck to the cars, didn't just get longer as the ride started plunging downhill; he also got skinnier, which is to say that his volume remained constant.
Morale started plunging and employees began to grumble.
I always assumed I would get the chance to, until a few weeks back when Britain took a dagger and repeatedly started plunging it into the heart of diversity.
Overall housing starts plunged 30.6percentt compared with those in the month a year earlier, and permits sank by 34.3percentt.
In the 1990-91 recession, housing starts plunged 48.5percentt in 12 months, to an annual rate of 798,000 in January 1991, then climbed by 51.6percentt over the next two years.
Housing starts plunged 11.2percentt in March, the largest monthly drop in six years, but the decline was attributed entirely to a slowdown in construction of apartments and other multifamily housing, while single-family housing starts were unchanged.
[C2.] Housing Starts Fell 11.2% in March Housing starts plunged 11.2percentt in March, the largest monthly drop in six years, but the decline was attributed entirely to a slowdown in construction of apartments and other multifamily housing.
