Some analysts say the initial stock slump was attributable to Mr. Isdell's intentionally painting a gloomy picture about Coke's outlook.

And that, he said, could lead to a stock slump in March and April.

Early Tuesday, while most of America slept, Hong Kong's market fell 14 percent, partly in reaction to the previous day's stock slump in New York.

She was not the first to predict a stock slump, though.

Never mind 1929 - that stock slump occurred in an environment of institutional weakness and sheer policy stupidity that I think (I hope) no longer exists.

Broadly speaking, there are three ways that a stock slump can turn into a prolonged recession.

Still, Calico's efforts to make its employees feel like partners seem for the moment to have cushioned the blow of the stock slump.

Shareholders who have seen the value of the stock slump from $13 earlier this year to $1.50 last week, an all-time low, are irate.

Analysts warned that the current stock slump might not have run its course.

Chilean consumers, taking their cues from the stock slump and the worsening news from Asia and Russia, are tightening their belts.