New-home sales in August were 8.3% lower than in July and a vertiginous 21% down on a year before.
For a vertiginous sense of how far share prices could fall, the best place to gaze may be through the looking glass at gold.
Set on the vertiginous site of a granite mountain sculpted by erosion and dominating a meander in the Rio Urubamba, Machu Picchu is a world renowned archaeological site.
Standing on Fermor's terrace, with its fragments of classical sculpture and its vertiginous view of a turquoise cove of stones, I felt as if the inhabitants of 40 years ago had momentarily gone inside for a siesta and would soon be out for a dusk-lit gin and tonic.
And when you start taking phrases out of context and recasting them as quotations, you begin to feel (Shapiro must have undergone this sensation) a little vertiginous.
The value of these has soared thanks to the stockmarket's vertiginous rise and, as a result, some pension plans have become over-funded (assets exceed liabilities).
As the mainstream media amps up the hype like a bunch of teenagers partying in a house their parents have left for the weekend, there are signs that millions may be suckered into a vortex of vertiginous investing.
Shares in companies that stand to benefit from the continued reflation of Japan's economy have been climbing at a rate best described as vertiginous.
To the south, Patagonia is a land of windswept steppes, vertiginous mountains and massive glaciers.
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Iraq's population--currently 12.5 million, not counting perhaps 1 million imported workers, mostly Egyptians--is growing at the vertiginous rate of about 3.5% a year.
Add environmentalists and hunters, as well as the crew of a helicopter called in to rescue one poorly Lopez-fan from the vertiginous amphitheatre, to the long list of locals who bristle at the name of Mortier.
Brazil has a history of high inflation, which used to mean that interest rates were vertiginous, and so were banks' margins.
From there 12 vertiginous staircases lead to the top level - the centre of the universe, since Angkor Wat is a model of Mount Meru which in Hindu mythology represents the cosmos.
"There is a shift in sensibility happening now shoppers are moving away from conspicuous It-bags, the vertiginous platform heel and gaudy in-your-face jewels, " said Kate Davidson Hudson, co-founder of the newly launched accessories shopping site Editorialist.
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