Investors had punished the stock earlier this month on news of the deal.

Investors punished the stock, driving it down $2, to $33.75.

After years of watching executives achieve more than expected, investors punish those that no longer can.

Investors also punished other retailers with large credit card operations.

Investors punished the company's stock, sending its shares down $1.64, or 9 percent, to $16.49.

Investors yesterday punished the stocks of the companies that manage those funds.

But for months, investors have been punishing the stock, pushing it down to $29.6875 yesterday, from a high of $47 in November.

Investors have punished sprawling companies that are hard to value ever since the collapse of Enron.

Investors have punished the company over the last year, driving its shares down from a high of $39 last March.

Investors immediately punished the company and other airline stocks.