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With the official announcement of a recession, the Dow Jones plummets nearly 700 points. Tech stocks Dell and Qualcomm, meanwhile, take a double-digit hit.

Stock prices are at six-year lows. Over the past two days the Dow Jones industrial average has lost more than 6 percent of its value.

The $700 billion bailout was supposed to stabilize the financial industry and get banks lending again. But that hasn't happened yet.

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Worry that the U.S. auto industry could collapse has added to recession jitters on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average finished down nearly 430 points Wednesday, falling below the 8,000 mark — levels not seen since 2003.

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Wall Street's Dow Jones index opens up sharply as people in the US go to the polls to choose a new president.

U.S. futures declined Wednesday, a day after hopes that a Federal Reserve rate cut would help shore up the economy sent the Dow Jones industrial average up nearly 900 points.