Now she relies on her 401(k), which took a hit in the 2008 market plunge.
The bigger part is the tremendous leap in volatility amid a market plunge driven by worries over U.S. deficits and European debts.
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Despite the relative few market alerts posted by brokerage houses, the response to the recent market plunge was an improvement from 2008.
For retail investors, however, the still-unexplained market plunge offers a window into how your broker reacts when the financial world is in a tailspin.
Thailand, for example, imposed a tax on foreign capital inflows into its stockmarket in 2006 but saw the market plunge and quickly reversed the decision.
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.
If you were one of the people who sold out in the last market plunge, then whatever level of risk you were at before selling was obviously too high.
The stock took a bit more of a beating than most following last week's market plunge, but MEE was already retreating from overhead resistance in the 54 region when the worst happened.
Sentiment could improve toward the later part of the month as the fiscal cliff dust settles, but Washington politics will still be front and center, with the constant threat of another credit downgrade and market plunge in the horizon.
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And once they get out, usually due to painful losses, they tend to stay away from another relationship with the market for very long periods, like those who have been on the sidelines since the big bear market plunge of 2008 and early last year, not enticed back in for even part of the new bull market that began early last year.
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Some believe the stock market could plunge without the Fed's support.
He compared the prospects to October 1987, when portfolio insurance, just "a bunch of stop-loss orders on a large-scale basis, " caused the market to plunge 23% in one day.
True, the U.S. got a jolt in late October when a sharp fall in the Hong Kong stock market sparked a big plunge in the Dow Jones index.
The gold market saw a massive price plunge from April 12-16 and some corrective unwind is not a surprise.
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Financial advisor sentiment has seen less of a drop, but the latest poll did not reflect a reaction to the plunge in the stock market late last week.
Within minutes of disembarking on the "Hong Kong side", I plunge into Wan Chai market, where plastic packets of dried seafood - some with medicinal qualities - are sold alongside knock-off Calvin Klein underwear.
In responding positively to those relatively minor reports, the market rally supposedly ignored the big plunge in durable goods orders in October (the largest monthly decline since January, 2009), that new home sales fell 8.1% in October, worse than forecasts, while home prices declined further, and the inventory of unsold homes rose more than expected.
The bursting of the stock-market bubble in 2000 led to a plunge in investment at American firms.
The plunge in the Japanese stock market Thursday spilled into Europe, overshadowing moderately better economic data in the Continent.
These days Honda has a particular reason to be grateful for the link: It has suffered a 77% earnings plunge in a brutal auto market.
It's good news for European policy makers that their plan to save the euro still commands so much market confidence, even as large parts of the continent plunge deeper into recession.
He estimates that the luxury market has dropped 10% to 20% and will continue to plunge.
The Oil Service ETF (OIH) has been a big tell that the market was not out of the woods, and it took the plunge out of the tightly formed wedge pattern that the newsletter has been targeting.
The oversold bounce we saw early in the week actually turned out to be a negative event for the bulls, because it allowed the market to work off its severely oversold condition and prime for another plunge.
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