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A year and a day after the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit its all-time high, it fell below 9,000 for the first time in five years.

Stocks have stepped up their selling in the final hour of trading. The Dow Jones industrial average is off more than 600 points, dropping below the 9,000 mark for the first time in five years.

Wall Street plunged again Thursday on anxiety about tight credit, the flagging economy and the financial health of automakers General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co.

A year after the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 index surged to record highs, the two major indexes are now at their lowest levels in five years.

Asian stock markets opened sharply lower, following a dire session on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones industrial average slumped 508 points to close down 5.1 percent on Tuesday.

Dow Jones Industrial Average sees 485 point gain, media stocks rise, albeit slightly.

Spooked investors fled the market today after the House rejected the $700 billion financial plan to rescue the financial market.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed down about 778 points, at 10,365. That was nearly a 7 percent drop.

The Dow Jones industrial average may be almost exactly where it was a week ago, but Wall Street is a completely different place.

Last week saw a potential top in commodities prices, as both oil and gold prices seem to have stalled out from their upward march in 2008.

That should have spelled relief for the stock market, which has been down by 13% in 2008, as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Yet, it didn’t. The week saw the Down finish lower by 0.63%, while the Standard & Poors 500 index rose by a meager 0.15%.

The market may be waiting until after Labor Day, where it can have another two weeks to be certain that commodity prices have topped out.

In the meantime, Americans will be back from their summer...

Wall Street tumbled for a second session Wednesday after a government report on retail sales and a jump in oil prices raised investors' concerns about consumers ability to spend and feed economic growth.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell about 150 points, bringing its two-day decline to more than 300.

Stocks extended their rally to a second day Wednesday after an upbeat employment report from payroll company ADP made investors cautiously optimistic about the government's upcoming July employment report.

Oil prices fell again, adding to Wall Street's upbeat mood, and the Dow Jones industrial average rose more than 100 points.