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Wall Street Drops

Source: TIME

Oct 06, 2008

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The Dow Jones falls more than 200 points in early trading, after overseas markets plunge.

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Nishith,

Oct 06, 2008

Make it 300

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Nishith,

Oct 06, 2008

It's almost 600 points down now - first time below 10K in 4 years.

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Nishith,

Oct 06, 2008

@jasongoldberg Are the sentiments so badly shaken up?

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Jasongoldberg,

Oct 06, 2008

Dow below 10,000 for first time in 4 years. Markets shaken.

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Genieyclo,

Oct 06, 2008

It's crazy down there. I got 4 emails within an hour about this from MarketWatch...almost choked on my soda!

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Diordna,

Oct 07, 2008

well, I used my brains! ;)

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Julien,

Oct 08, 2008

I'm sure it will be back up in a couple of months. Historically, every market crash (bear) was followed by a bigger bull market. Check out this post about my take on why the market is crashing: http://www.socialmedian.com/story/1236808/is-incentive-compensation-a-villain-of-the-credit-crisis

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