Shares can tumble for many reasons, and executives might be blamed for losses that are not really their fault.
Remember all those newly-minted Double Dippers coming out of the woodwork in August of 2010 after a rough and tumble headline summer for stocks?
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The closest you get to a Barca villain is midfield enforcer Sergio Busquets or wingback Dani Alves, both of whom have a penchant for taking a tumble to win a free kick, while Busquets is known for the odd dirty tackle.
There are a variety of explanations for the tumble offered by talking heads, ranging from a research report to a technical death cross.
Then he meets an earnest young fellow from Buffalo (Jonny Orsini) at the Automat, hauls the boy home for a tumble and, very much to his surprise, falls in love.
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After all, it is an investment bank that should have done its homework, especially when some pundits were predicting that the baht was heading for a tumble as early as 1996.
This time around with debt markets collapsing and private real estate ever more dependent on large amounts of debt to maintain normal equity rates of return, it looks like private real estate values are in for a tumble.
The ruling sent Glaxo shares down 8% in European trading and left them poised for a similar tumble on U.S. markets.
It was no coincidence, perhaps, that Mr Berlusconi then seemed to find fresh enthusiasm for the rough and tumble of political life - having previously hinted that he, too, was ready to hand over to a younger man.
The shares continued to tumble Tuesday amid reports that an analyst for one of its banks had trimmed the outlook for the social-network company's revenue just ahead of the deal.
If rosy projections for growth fade, prices could tumble, but most developers are hopeful.
Looking back at this chart, the equity market continued to tumble through January 2009 as more Americans filed for unemployment each week.
Are they not cut out for the rough-and-tumble world of entrepreneurship?
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According to Robert Wood, EIU's chief economist on Brazil, this is yet more bad news for the country, which took a tumble this year in the eyes of international markets.
But the spectacular recent tumble in the US consumer confidence presents a formidable obstacle for the handset market momentum in America.
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The danger for Lockheed Martin is that if orders start to tumble, the F-35 could go into a death spiral.
BT's wholesale prices tumble, Video Networks has the chance to prove that, for some, video-on-demand is the ultimate in convenience television.
Politically that would be far too risky for unstable regimes like Saudi Arabia: prices would tumble to even lower levels, and their market share would increase only slowly.
Roads skirt walled villages with castles fit for Sleeping Beauty, and picture-perfect towns tumble down to lakesides where sailboats bob in the sunset in search of the Frog Prince.
Add in an anaemic recovery, at best, in America, and the worry that its economy might tumble off a fiscal cliff in December, and the outlook for external demand is bleak.
And that's all it could take for Rossi to be right back in it, one tumble or breakdown and the heat is back on.
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But there's also a strong argument for grabbing the lead in this rough-and-tumble form of swimming: it disentangles you from the arms and legs of other swimmers.
This is making life tricky for international oil companies trying to do business in rough and tumble places while complying with U.S. or other domestic laws.
There is little room for nuance when it comes to the rough-and-tumble of American presidential politics and both of these subjects are governed by nuance and degree.
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For example, if you think REITs are poised to take a tumble and gold is set to rise, you can trade out of your REIT position and into gold in a matter of moments at any time during the trading day.
For one thing, with credit tight in America as corporate profits there tumble, they could add some welcome liquidity to America's thirsty markets.
But I for one would not be in the least surprised to see rare earth prices tumble over the next few years.
In these deals, Ribotsky invested cash in thinly traded public companies, in return for securities convertible into discounted common shares, often causing the stock price to tumble.
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But if inflation were to become entrenched, gilt prices would tumble independently, because creditors would demand a higher interest rate from the government, to compensate for rising inflation.
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