No evidence has been produced to demonstrate whether program trading contributed to the market's recent plunge.
Consider, for example, how the market's recent plunge compares with the bear market of 1987.
Now, the recent plunge in the stock market and a cooler economy have generated a debate about whether history will soon repeat itself.
It worked beautifully in spite of his recent plunge into deep water.
All were still dripping from their recent plunge in the ocean.
The gain, however, left the average short of where it was trading before the recent plunge and still below the psychologically important 17,000 point level.
He also offered some thoughts on the recent plunge in Internet stocks.
Even before the recent plunge in technology stocks, Barnesandnoble.com's stock price had plummeted.
Money managers with results worse than those of the market indexes during the recent plunge are "history," he said.
Nor has his recent plunge into the toy business played out as he hoped.