11.   For the second straight day, energy stocks were hammered.

12.   Green said Tuesday in a conference call to analysts that there would be substantial job cuts at the company, whose stock has been hammered the past two days.

13.   Healy noted that auto stocks have been hammered by contrasting economic news -- first that sales are weaker than expected, then that the economy is stronger than expected.

14.   In each place, overfishing hammered fish stocks.

15.   In the computer networking area, some of the biggest players saw their stock hammered.

16.   Indeed, blue-chip stocks were hammered.

17.   Indeed, the selling hammered stocks both in and out of favor with investors, both cyclical and noncyclical businesses, and both recognizable and obscure companies.

18.   Investors were suddenly afraid that their highly valued growth stocks would be hammered by rising interest rates.

19.   Investors hammered stocks that were not dispensing good news.

20.   Investors, though, hammer the stocks of Dynegy and its peer group.