| concerns led to a wave of last-minute selling as the Dow, already about 300 points lower, plummeted, closing down 4.4 percent or 504.48 points. On Wall Street, the Standard & Poor?s 500-stock index was down 4.6 percent at the close, and the technology-heavy Nasdaq fell 4.6 percent.Benchmark indexes were off nearly 4 percent in London and Paris and almost 3 percent in Frankfurt. |
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