Now conservationists from the zoological society of london 's project seahorse team are warning populations could fall precipitously because so much of their habitat could have been lost to the spill .
The financial markets were convulsed by a month of panic that saw bank shares drop precipitously , credit dry up and governments forced to abandon their free-market principles to save the global financial system from collapse .
These funds are going to have the ability to buy any global company , to create panic in markets if they move too precipitously , even to dwarf the political clout of international financial institutions .