1.   And analysts say venture firms rarely dump significant holdings all at once.

2.   Across the Tasman Sea, New Zealand bonds recovered after U.S. bonds posted their biggest decline in nine years, as domestic investors stampeded to dump their holdings.

3.   After all, no less an investment guru than Warren E. Buffett recently dumped his holdings in zero-coupon bonds, a position he had amassed last year.

4.   Dwindling deposits forced some brokerages to dump securities holdings at huge losses to fund daily operations.

5.   Fixed-income investors dumped their holdings and fled to stocks.

6.   New Zealand bonds fell to their lowest level in a year as domestic investors scrambled to dump their holdings.

7.   Now firms are dismissing traders and dumping holdings.

8.   Same with the stock market, as many players ignore sage advice to stand pat and dump their holdings.

9.   Shaw said the losses were magnified when other firms with similar investments began to dump their holdings.

10.   Some are dismissing traders, and many are dumping bond holdings and asking themselves what went wrong.