The Viacom move is aimed at increasing the value of the company's depressed stock.

Insurance industry analysts, some of whom had been recommending the company's depressed stock as a buying opportunity, were outraged.

Fears of higher interest rates depressed financial stocks.

The rise in interest rates, which pushed long-term bond yields back above 6 percent, depressed cyclical stocks, however.

The funds favor big, name-brand companies with temporarily depressed stocks.

The bank has been reluctant to issue new common stock because such a move would further dilute the value of its already depressed stock.

With their biggest single stock so depressed, these entities now find themselves operating with $900 million less than what they had at the end of 1995.

Late program selling depressed blue-chip stocks in slow trading.

New data that the American economy was more vigorous than thought chilled the already depressed European stock and bond markets.

And the company's depressed stock does not give it the currency to use to take over another food giant.