drop in the market

A drop in the markets could put them back there.

But the recent drop in the market, if it continues, could help slow the economy.

I ask if the day's drop in the markets spooked him.

That is the question I get 10 times more often than a lamentation about the drop in the market.

The drop in the market, he said, has helped to reduce the Japanese share of his portfolio below last fall's level.

He said there was no reason to believe that the drop in the market represented more than a periodic correction.

But the severe drop in the market has slashed the value of those portfolios and thus reduced capital.

That attitude, which typically followed every significant drop in the market during the 1990's, could help end the recent slide.

The company has suffered badly from a drop in the market for men's tailored suits, which make up a significant portion of its sales.

But a victory by an American Conference team indicates a drop in the market by the end of the year.

Sometimes a fund has trouble figuring the value of a security it owns, perhaps because of a sharp drop in the market.

I think the severe drop in the market wouldn't change habits if there weren't already a latent anxiety.

Previously, it had been thought that a drop in the markets led to more negative feelings but it proved to be the other way around.

A sustained drop in the market could easily crack confidence and encourage America's big spenders to go on a consumption diet.

Some traders, expecting a drop in the market, had sold borrowed oil futures contracts with the intention of buying them back at lower prices.

Despite all the talk of victory, experts remain divided over whether circuit breakers can claim credit for stemming the drop in the markets.

And, according to Edwards executives, October was one of the best months ever, despite the 190-point drop in the market on Oct. 13.

Even with the drop in the market since then, and the rise overseas, the United States still looks expensive to foreign markets, especially emerging markets.

"I am more concerned about the attitude and participation of the U.S. dealers who have been damaged by sharp drop in the market recently."

The bad news out of Bentonville, Ark., dragged down other retailers, and contributed to an overall drop in the market yesterday.

The drop in the market, Mr. Hirschfeld says, brings a sense of sanity to private market valuation.

Charles Cook, an independent political analyst who is a particularly close observer of Congress, said he could not predict what effect the drop in the market would have.

He said he expects either an abrupt drop in the market, or "a longer period of general weakness, until no one is any longer interested in stocks."

The loss, Hutton said, was primarily the result of the sharp drop in the market value of securities held for investment, customers' bad debts and trading losses.

But Mr. Frashure had said that a drop in the market or a further slowdown in the economy would make France more attractive.