share prices

Weekend reports Panasonic Corp. may acquire rival Sanyo Electric Co. sent share prices of the Japanese electronics makers soaring on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Tuesday.

Sharp plunges in share prices have thrown up bargains for those with the stomach to plunge back into volatile markets and deep enough pockets to look past the grim economic outlook, bankers to the wealthy said.

From 1982 to 2000, the U.S. stock market went on the longest bull run ever, as share prices rose to dizzying heights.

In the late 1990s, a combination of factors, which included the Federal Reserve lowering interest rates, created a huge price bubble in Internet stocks.

After a free fall in share prices this week, investors in Asia could do little else but pray.

Speculators have long been able to short-sell stocks, making money when share prices fall. But derivatives are now making it possible, in effect, to short municipal bonds.

Regulators quickly halted trading on Russia's two major stock exchanges Tuesday after share prices dropped sharply in response to the economic bailout turmoil in the United States.

President Dmitri A. Medvedev pledged to inject almost $20 billion into financial markets to stem a plummet in share prices and quash fears of a repeat of the country’s 1998 financial collapse.

However, Mr Greenspan cautions that a heavy-handed regulatory response to the crisis would do more harm than good because it would depress global share prices.

He worries that governments, already troubled by inflation, might try to reassert their grip on economic affairs.