Stocks sink on '87 crash anniversary
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NEW YORK  -Caterpillar Inc.'s warning that the housing slump was infecting the wider economy sent U.S. stocks tumbling by the most in more than two months on Friday, in a drop that was made more unnerving as it marked the 20th anniversary of the 1987 market crash.
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U.S. stocks fell on Friday, with major indexes sliding 1 percent, after bellwether stocks, including Caterpillar Inc.  and Google Inc , posted disappointing earnings.
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The stock market fell sharply last week as the subprime mortgage crisis spilled over into the broad financial markets.
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House prices suffered their worst  decline since at least 1987 in the second quarter from a year  earlier as the housing downturn has deepened, according to the  S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index.
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NEW YORK, March 2 -- The Dow Jones industrial average ended its worst weekly performance in four years Friday, as technology stocks sank and the yen continued to rally against the dollar.
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European and Asian stock markets plunged Monday following declines on Wall Street last week amid investor pessimism over the U.S. government's stimulus plan to prevent a recession.
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Wall Street extended its 2008 plunge Thursday, tumbling after a regional Federal Reserve report showed a sharp decline in manufacturing activity
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Stocks fell for a third straight session on Friday as concern over rising defaults in the subprime mortgage industry drove financial services shares down for their worst drop in a month and the price of oil hit a 2007 high.
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Stocks fell on Friday, setting Wall Street on course for its worst week in more than four years, as the diminishing appetite for riskier assets fueled a further rout in global equity markets.
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U.S. stocks tumbled on Friday, battered by disappointing results from bellwether stocks such as Caterpillar Inc.  and Google Inc. , and worry that fallout from the risky subprime mortgage market may spread.
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Stocks plunged Tuesday, driving the Dow Jones industrials down 200 points and erasing the gains from the past three sessions, as troubles for subprime lenders kept piling up and U.S. retail sales came in weaker than anticipated.
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Asian stocks slumped to a two-week low on Monday, extending a poor start in 2008, after weak U.S. jobs data heightened fears of recession in the region's top export market, while bond prices rose as investors sought safety.
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Stocks slid on Monday as worries about the housing slump's impact on the economy rattled investors, driving down shares of bellwethers such as Caterpillar Inc .
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Japanese stocks plunged Friday on the first day of trading of 2008, closing more than 4 per cent lower at their weakest levels in a year and a half as a slumping dollar and fears of a US recession battered investor confidence.
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US stocks plunged in a torrid week, suffering their steepest one-day fall in equities since 2001. The slump reversed the year's gains, and left open the question of whether worse was to come.
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Stocks fell on Friday after initial news of a White House stimulus package raised doubts about how much of a boost it would give the economy.
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A week of gut-wrenching losses in the stock market ended on Friday with the Dow Jones industrial average falling 59.91 points, to 12,099.30.