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Dow dips more than 500 on worries about financials

AP - 5 minutes ago

NEW YORK - The misery worsened on Wall Street Tuesday, with stocks piling on the losses late in the session and bringing the two-day decline in the Dow Jones industrials to more than 875 points amid escalating worries about credit markets and financial sector. The Dow lost more than 500 points and all the major indexes slid more than 5 percent.

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Off the Wires

Bernanke says Fed must review stand on rates AFP - 21 minutes ago
Panel not likely to call a recession soon Reuters - 33 minutes ago
Consumer credit marks first fall since January 1998 Reuters - 39 minutes ago
Bernanke signals readiness to cut rates Reuters - 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
August borrowing drops at 3.7 percent rate AP - 1 hour, 30 minutes ago

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News Stories

Fed provides more help to banks at CNN/Money - Mon, Oct 06, 2008
Big Discounts Fail to Lure Shoppers at The Wall Street Journal - Mon, Oct 06, 2008
In a Weak Climate, the Dollar Has Surprising Muscle at The New York Times - Mon, Oct 06, 2008
Full of Doubts, U.S. Shoppers Cut Spending at The New York Times - Mon, Oct 06, 2008
In D.C., few evade blame for financial crisis at The Los Angeles Times - Mon, Oct 06, 2008

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Feature Articles

Keeping Customers in a Crummy Economy at Business Week - Mon, Oct 06, 2008
At Massage Office, Business Is a Chart of Wall Street Nerves at The New York Times - Mon, Oct 06, 2008
Looking for loans in new places at The Los Angeles Times - Mon, Oct 06, 2008
Behind big job losses, a tighter credit squeeze The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News - Mon, Oct 06, 2008
'Is My Money Safe?' and Other Questions to Ask at The New York Times - Tue, Sep 30, 2008
How bad is our economy? at The Los Angeles Times - Tue, Sep 30, 2008

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Opinion & Editorials

Is It 1929 Again? at The Washington Post - Mon, Oct 06, 2008
Mailing Our Way to Solvency at The New York Times - Mon, Oct 06, 2008
Rescue Legislation Contains Palliatives, No Cure at Bloomberg.com - Mon, Oct 06, 2008
What's Worse Than a Flawed Bailout? at The New York Times - Tue, Sep 30, 2008
No one's clean in this mess at The Los Angeles Times - Tue, Sep 30, 2008
The real solution to the financial crisis: recession at Christian Science Monitor - Tue, Sep 30, 2008

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Related Web Sites

U.S. Economic Calendar - economic indicators to be released in the coming week. From Yahoo! Finance.
Economy at a Glance - Key economic statistics, updated monthly. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Federal Reserve System Beige Book - provides national and regional summaries of U.S. economic conditions.
U.S. Department of Commerce - site includes updates on economic indicators and data.
The Conference Board - non-profit, non-advocacy organization that created the consumer confidence index, an economic indicator released monthly. Also tracks leading economic indicators.
Statistics of Income (SOI) - Find out more about individual and corporate income from data files compiled from tax and information returns filed with the IRS.