1.   Bonds were mostly higher, tracking U.S. Treasuries, which recovered from early losses as investors switched out of plunging equity market into fixed-income securities.

2.   Few would have predicted the increase after Mexico devalued its currency last December, plunging markets throughout the region into a free fall.

3.   Someone tampered with the master light switches, plunging the market into darkness.

4.   U.S. and Australian government bonds, meantime, rose as investors sought refuge from plunging equity markets.

5.   Initially rattled by plunging Asian markets, European stocks staged a cautious recovery Wednesday, while the U.S. markets finished the day mixed.

6.   Other currencies in the region followed, plunging financial markets into turmoil and some companies into bankruptcy.

7.   Financial markets were plunged into turmoil.

8.   The market was plunged into tension and confusion as the new measures aimed at preventing the collapse of the national currency, the rial, came into force Sunday.