As a result, the yield plunged to 8.29 percent, from 8.41 percent a week earlier.

After the coup, Pepsi's market share plunged to zero from 46 percent.

French unemployment has plunged from more than 12 percent four years ago to about 8.8 percent today.

The association's index plunged to 49.6 percent from 59.8 percent.

The long bond's yield plunged to 8.07 percent, from 8.15 percent on Monday.

The yield plunged to 4.29 percent from 4.44 percent on Tuesday, its lowest level since the fall of 1998.

The yield on the two-year note plunged to 2.98 percent from 3.51 percent.

But approval of his foreign policies has plunged to 36 percent from 50 percent.

The price of the five-year note was up 10/32 as the yield plunged to 4.94 percent, from 5.01 percent and the lowest in 26 years.

Since January, his popularity has plunged from 71 percent to 34 percent.