Shares of Amazon sank $14.875, or 14 percent, yesterday to $93.4375.

The only utilities to decline as a group in the two months were the independent power producers, which sank 12.5 percent.

Its stock sank 3.3 percent today to close at 2,130 yen.

In the next two days, the stock price sank 31 percent, to $87.25 a share.

But its market has sunk 6 percent in dollars since December began.

Not surprisingly, the stock sank 30 percent under the selling pressure that day.

The Houston rate had sunk as low as 44 percent in 1986.

The shares sank 13 percent on their first day of trading, and yesterday's closing price was a new low.

Residential land prices sank 5.7 percent in 2003 from a year earlier.

Fees for underwriting new issues sank about 20 percent from $3.29 billion in the period a year earlier.