1.   Second, bonds, despite their fixed income status, lose value if inflation is expected to rise.

2.   Although Nasdaq set another record last year, more than half the companies that trade on Nasdaq lost value.

3.   And those payouts are fully taxable, even if the fund lost value during the year.

4.   Anyone dumb enough to keep oil on hand as inventory is tying up capital in an asset that is all but certain to lose value.

5.   As corporate bonds lose value, their spread versus Treasuries expands.

6.   As the bonds lost value, lenders demanded more collateral, which some banks here could not provide.

7.   As stock prices fall, stock options will lose their value.

8.   As the peso lost value, and tesobono holders demanded to be paid in dollars, Mexico faced a liquidity problem.

9.   As the peso lost value earlier in the year, so did Mexican stocks.

10.   As the U.S. dollar strengthens, the company loses the value of some earnings abroad because profit earned in other countries is translated into fewer dollars.