11.   Bouts of selling from professional computer-driven investment programs would send the market averages plunging.

12.   A late recovery brought major market averages off their session lows, preventing what was a bad day from being even worse.

13.   A late recovery brought major market averages up from their lows for the session, preventing what was a bad day from being even worse.

14.   After running well ahead of the pack for four years, the American stock market trailed the foreign market average.

15.   Airline stocks have also historically underperformed the broad market averages.

16.   All the major market averages closed on Friday at or near their lows for the day.

17.   All the major market averages posted significant gains on Tuesday.

18.   All the major market averages are down for the year, the third consecutive year of falling prices.

19.   All the major market averages posted big declines.

20.   All the other market averages were down sharply as well.