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In a little over two weeks, the Dow has tumbled more than 2,000 points as bad economic news continues to pile up. Word on Thursday that jobless claims hit a 16-year high, combined with a dreary outlook for Detroit and a lack of confidence in major financial institutions, helped drive the DJIA down to 7,552.29.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 444.99 points, or 5.6%, to 7552.29. The benchmark’s financial stocks were bludgeoned amid fears that more credit losses could begin to pile up from bets on commercial real estate, and that the balance sheets of financial institutions will be further sullied by what appears to be a worsening economic outlook.

Citigroup, which lost nearly a quarter of its value a day ago, dropped 26% amid anxiety about its credit exposure. But few banking companies were spared from a battering on Thursday. Fellow Dow components J.P. Morgan Chase and Bank of America declined by 18% and 14%, respectively.

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By GW=MCHammered, November 21, 2008 at 3:30 am #
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Anyone else smell new currency rising from this B.S. slide? Such antiquated ideals.

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By samosamo, November 21, 2008 at 1:08 am #

Sure seems to be in free fall now. My projections of 5000 before January is doable.
Much thanks to pelosi, paulson, bernanke, w, the new billionaire sec. of commerce to be for obama and all the big big big banks, the big big banks, the big banks, and wall street which somehow became the media and w’s choice as the indicator of how strong our economy was, is and will be.
Hopefully, cleaning out the coffers will at least give someone the chance to rebuild the economy from the bottom up but I doubt that will happen. After all, the few left to benefit are not necessarily republicans that want their slice(s) of the pie.

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