tanked
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Jukeboxes helped save the music industry when record sales tanked during the Great Depression and people sought inexpensive entertainment after the repeal of Prohibition.
Tourism has also tanked since the Covid pandemic, in part because Cuba isn’t a market economy.
The stock tanked 15% on Wednesday after the company—which also makes the popular weight-loss and diabetes drug Ozempic—issued a dismal outlook for the current year, saying it expects sales to fall.
From Barron's
The stock tanked last year after fatal liver failure cases in Elevidys patients.
The news fuelled a rally of more than one percent in US stocks, which had tanked Tuesday on their return from a long weekend.
From Barron's
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