By the numbers | A collapse of mammoth proportions

Before the fall, Enron was the

7th largest company

in the U.S. by sales and, at its share-price high in August 2000, had a stock market value of

$68 billion

Evaporated when Enron filed for bankruptcy in December 2001:

More than

5,000 jobs

and

$800 million

in employee pensions