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Fidelity Investments, the big brokerage and mutual fund firm, long has had a rule protecting its small retail clients from plunging into initial public stock offerings while the shares were still subject to IPO-related hype.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

The picture shows implied volatility increasing into a spike and then plunging, creating a sawtooth pattern.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

Additional sales by the company could send bitcoin plunging.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

QCi was a notable outlier, with its share price plunging 38%.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Gat runs into the sea without looking back, plunging in, in all his clothes, diving underneath the small waves.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart