Stocks slump amid economic worries
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The Nasdaq Composite index fell more than 2 percent and the Dow industrials were more than 1.5 percent lower in late morning trading on Friday as worries about the economy escalated.
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Stocks tanked Tuesday afternoon, after a report showing a big slowdown in the services sector of the economy amplified fears that a recession is underway or imminent.
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Stocks tanked Friday as worries about more problems in the bank sector, slower corporate earnings growth, the weak dollar, and record-high oil prices all came to a head.
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U.S. stocks dropped on Friday after a manufacturing index showed its weakest reading in more than three years, prompting worries the economy was slowing sharply.
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Stocks fell on Monday, extending last week's losses, as investors worried that signs of rising inflation and weakness in holiday shopping dimmed prospects for economic growth and corporate profits.
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Stocks tumbled on Thursday as data showing a plunge in regional factory activity and news of a hefty loss by brokerage Merrill Lynch fanned worries about the economy.
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Stocks dropped sharply on Thursday as data showing a plunge in regional factory activity and news of a hefty loss by brokerage Merrill Lynch fanned worries about the economy.
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Asian markets plunged Wednesday after a steep drop on Wall Street overnight fanned investors' fears the U.S. economy was sliding into a recession
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Stocks fell on Monday as investors fretted about the U.S. economy's health and fears about a global slowdown mounted.
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Stocks fell on Thursday as signs of   housing-market weakness and worries about the outlook for   interest rates made investors uneasy about prospects for   consumer spending and corporate profits.
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U.S. stocks slid on Friday after a manufacturing index showed its weakest reading in more than three years, prompting worries about the strength of the U.S. economy.
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U.S. stocks fell on Thursday as investors locked in profits ahead of Friday's jobs data that could show further weakening in the economy and possibly send equity markets lower.
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Stocks plunged yesterday as investors, nervous about earnings reports, cringed at troubling forecasts from two retailers, Home Depot and Sears, and at soaring oil prices.
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US stocks fell this week after a government report showing slower job growth, coupled with an unexpected drop in an index of service industries and record oil prices, fueled concern that economic expansion will stall.
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Stocks fell on Friday as investors   worried that the economy may get bruised by a   sharper-than-expected slowdown, which prompted them to sell   shares of big industrial companies such as heavy equipment   maker Caterpillar Inc. CAT.N.
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Stocks declined for a second day on mounting evidence that a housing slump is putting the brakes on the economy.
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Stocks slipped on Monday as concern about the impact of the housing slump and credit squeeze hurt shares of financial companies.