That $7.50 range is 9.3 percent of the stock's high.

The current price is well below the stock's high of $44.75.

The stock's high over the last 52 weeks is $131 a share.

So does this mean that the investors who have bet on lower interest rates and higher stocks are wrong?

Talk of a possible deal had been sending Christie's stock sharply higher in recent days.

The stock's high was $33.875 in January, and it reached a low of $11.75 this month.

With demand for the stock high and the market looking volatile, the bankers decided to go on April 4, rather than later in the month.

The stock's high for the year was $2.875, compared with a high of $3.875 in 1990.

Her father, or mother, might well have come from that higher stock.

In 2000, with the stock still high, he made $25 million selling shares.