Yesterday's stock plunge knocked about $700 billion off the market value of companies in the Wilshire 5000 index.
Improvements in System In the stock plunge of 1987, history is not likely to repeat itself.
Shareholders filed a class-action suit shortly after the stock plunge.
The stock plunge will undoubtedly deal a blow to the October index.
The units went on the market three days before the stock plunge on Oct. 19.
Financial regulators are seeking to shore up international markets in the wake of last month's stock plunge.
The toll of the stock plunge varied, however.
But investors and economists also described the stock plunge as inevitable.
Pricing the issue so far below the market might seem to be a recipe for a stock plunge.
It was a threat that many say helped to spur the worldwide stock plunge.