Sentence examples for wipe about from inspiring English sources

It must ponder what to do about the famine in southern Africa and the AIDS epidemic, which together threaten to wipe about more than a quarter of the population of some countries.

Shares fell as much as 19.6percenttoto $174.78, a decline that if sustained would wipe about $124 billion off the company's value - or nearly four times the entire market capitalization of Twitter Inc. Dismal revenue, which initially pulled the stock down nearly 9percentt on Wednesday, clearly was not the end for wounded investors.

This share price drop wiped about £28m from Trinity Mirror's market capitalisation to £128.8m.

The news saw the company's shares almost halve in value, wiping about £64m off its market value.

The scandal has wiped about 40% off Mitsubishi's market value, amounting to losses of $3.2bn over three days.

The inquiries come after revelations of an accounting fraud set off a period of selling that wiped about $3.7 billion from the company's market value last year.

Selling of its shares wiped about 3 billion pounds $5.95 billionn) off its market value before the lender, based in Edinburgh, could deny the rumors, saying it had "ready access" to funds.

5.10pm BST: The FTSE 100 closes 8.85% lower at 3932.1 – a 381.7 point fall, wiping about £89.5bn off the value of Britain's biggest companies.

AstraZeneca's shares tumbled 13% to £42.04 on the news, wiping about £8bn off the company's market value as investors concluded that the chance of a deal was now remote.

The latest plunge in the shares follows a 20% drop on Wednesday and a 12% slide on Tuesday, wiping about $6.5bn£5.3bnbn) from the group's stock market value this week.

DealBook »   Write-Downs From Mining Deals Reach $50 Billion  |  Bloomberg News reports: "The world's biggest mining and steel companies have wiped about $50 billion off project valuations in the past year and the purge is poised to continue this earnings season as managers reassess expensive takeovers".