11.   Business confidence has plunged as a result of the political crisis, sending the peso and stock market to record lows.

12.   Business confidence has plunged with consumer demand stagnating.

13.   Consumer confidence has plunged.

14.   ECONOMIC confidence has plunged to a record low, with one in two adults dissatisfied with the economy, a poll shows.

15.   Immediately after the attacks, Wall Street collapsed, U.S. companies announced huge job cuts and consumer confidence plunged.

16.   In the wake of the attacks, consumer confidence has plunged, layoffs have spiked and billions of dollars in business have been lost.

17.   In their aftermath, consumer confidence has plunged, unemployment has soared and manufacturing, the weakest part of the economy, has sunk deeper into its own recession.

18.   Market confidence plunged, and several dozen finance companies were forced to close.

19.   That gloomy U.S. forecast was underlined Tuesday, when U.S. consumer confidence plunged to its lowest level in six years.

20.   With consumer confidence plunging and layoffs spiking since the attacks, however, economists worry that consumers will close their pocketbooks.