And if you were an owner of an NFL team, do you consider selling now, at peak value?
Most conspicuous among the casualties has been commercial real estate, which is selling for, on average, one-fifth of its peak value.
That was just the start of a decline that saw the U.S. stock market lose 90 per cent of its peak value in 3 years.
That's 75% off its peak value in January but still good enough to allow him to travel not just first class but in his company's private jet.
The dissidents forced the sale of the company's tobacco concern, Conwood, and a majority stake in its industrial conglomerate, Marmon Group, when the economy and stock market were near peak value.
While the official line was that this step was taken as a function of normal year-end "indexing, " the real impetus was clear: By mid-December, the stock experienced a roughly 29% decline from its peak value on 6 September1 -- despite reasonably strong earnings -- thanks to an international divestment campaign waged against a company seen to be providing indispensable new revenue streams to one of the planet's most odious regimes.
The picture of these big companies facing short-term trouble should peak interest from value investors.
While the NASDAQ has lost 40% of its value from its peak at that time, Dell has lost more than 75% of its value.
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Its shares have lost almost a third of their value since their peak in November last year.
The 30-year bond has already lost 11.7%, while the popular 20-year bond etf TLT has lost 16.2% of its value since its peak in early September.
In the big picture, the two partners argue, their bubble-era purchases may have declined in value from the peak, but they will still generate solid returns for investors over time.
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Now, we've recovered -- in part because of the policies that we put into place to stabilize the situation, the stock market has recovered 60-70 percent of its value from its peak.
In a 20-year period, Cape ostrich feathers tripled in value, and at their peak their price per pound was almost equal that of diamonds--in hindsight, a sure sign of a bubble economy.
During the meeting Mr Cook said he sympathised with shareholders who found Apple's recent stock-price performance a "disappointment", after the iPhone maker lost around a third of its market value since September's peak.
Although prices have already fallen by 23% from their peak, they remain well above fair value and the dire state of the Spanish economy, where a quarter of the workforce is unemployed, suggests that prices will keep diving.
And indeed, the 20-year U.S. Treasury bond recently lost 11% of its value just since its late July peak.
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As the Nasdaq rose toward its peak early last year Longleaf Partners Funds' value portfolio sank 14% in two months.
Notwithstanding the sharp recovery of the past twelve months, this leaves large value stocks fully 21% below the peak they reached three years ago.
From their peak in 2005, its shares lost 99% of their value.
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The deal with a strong partner like Microsoft will be welcome news for Lastminute.com shareholders, who have seen the value of their investment plummet by 75% from its peak.
When we looked at real estate billionaires this summer for our list of the 400 Wealthiest Americans we found that real estate value had decreased by at least 15% since their peak in 2007, pretty much across the board.
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At its peak in 1989, Japan represented half of the total world stock market value.
They have now halved in value, after a fivefold rise between 1995 and their 2007 peak.
As for those resurgent value stocks, profit margins for many industrials are near their peak, not at depressed levels.
However, this will leave the employment rate only marginally above its current value of 71.4%, well below 2008's peak of 74.5%.
Indeed, the value of deals done worldwide is now nearly two-thirds below its peak during the boom days of 2000.
U.S. manufacturers now produce three and a half times more output per worker hour than they did in the peak employment year of 1979, in part because offshoring has sent many low-value jobs overseas, but also because automation has replaced lots of factory jobs.
Since the market hit bottom in 2009, the value of property owned by REITs has gained 60% and is back to peak levels, according to an index compiled by Green Street Advisors.
The cells could then reduce peak power demands air conditioning would be making on the electricity grid, leveraging their own economic value.
Silver dropped more than 20% in value in about a week and, thus far, the price remains deeply below the peak.
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