Or were short-sellers covering a bet on a post-testimony plunge by buying up News Corp. shares?
If nothing else, it is my sincere hope that it inspires some entrepreneurs to take the plunge and start up their own business.
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The squeeze on the rouble comes just as the benefits to the Russian economy of the huge devaluation in 1998, which made imports plunge and pepped up local production, are wearing off.
As markets plunge, stock gurus buy up shares of stocks like Merck and Dynegy.
Apple is a poster child with its recent bounce, but Setrakian says plenty of large-cap stocks had good earnings and got swept up in the plunge, including the likes of Honeywell and Target.
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This is a 51% plunge from last year, but up 10% from its earlier forecast.
In an intimate interview, Cameron discusses the moments leading up to his dramatic plunge, and describes his speedy descent.
The pricier units really up the luxury quotient with plunge pools, saunas and Jacuzzis.
"Even though the injury made my world ranking plunge, it also made me grow up a lot, " she recalls.
He lays it out in a blur: Even after the big market plunge, Cisco's stock is up 370-fold since its 1990 debut, up 150-fold since he joined in 1991.
So if you believe in the durability of this rally and the strength of both housing and the consumer, it may be a great time to take the plunge on Whirlpool before the stock runs up even higher over the next few weeks and months.
After a steep plunge during the recession, companies have stepped up their capital spending, which rose by 8.9% in the year to the third quarter of 2010.
And while some may feel like they need a drink or two to work up the courage to take the plunge ... alcohol isn't a good idea before taking a cold dip.
If Mr Akerson, a tough egg, shakes things up again, fragile executive morale could plunge.
That helped precipitate EMC's current sales plunge, as IBM and Hitachi swept in and scooped up business.
They told him what he wanted to hear, so that he would retreat from a comfortable exile in London (and please, sign me up anyday for that kind of exile) to plunge back into the tumult of Pakistani electoral politics, wrongly thinking that he still had a power base there.
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The steep plunge in the real and the sharp rise in interest rates up by three percentage points on October 14th, for instance have made the debt position even more precarious.
Its brawny design including double-layer cinder-block walls reinforced by heavy duty steel bars and cement piers that plunge 30 feet into the ground should allow it to withstand winds up to 200 mph.
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He watched Wall Street pump up Nifty Fifty stocks like Polaroid and Kodak, only to see them plunge spectacularly.
Traders said part of the plunge in prices was a result of investors choosing to sell gold instead of putting up more money as collateral to keep their wagers open.
That long-term bull market appears to have ended with a temporary reversal to the downside in 2011, a recovery back up but to a lower peak last October, and a more serious plunge since that has gold down 24% from that peak, officially in a bear market.
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Lupita Island has private plunge pools, a spa, and three bars (lounge, poolside, and swim-up).
This comes after a day of frustration trying to get it hooked up to UMTS yesterday -- a sentiment echoed by several others who took the plunge.
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Stocks barely inched up this morning with new developments in Europe restraining optimism, a day after a massive plunge in U.S. markets.
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And given that (a) Wall Street is a cold-hearted place and (b) stocks have been moving in a straight up fashion on the tails of strong earnings, decent economic data, and a renewed plunge in the dollar, it is important to note that stocks have become overbought and are due for at least some sort of a pullback in the near future.
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