Article: A troubling fall in Wall Street. (Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 120 points) (Brief Article)

The credit crunch, long blamed for the sluggish economy, is sharing blame for a bad day on the stock market. Combined with a decline in biotech stocks, fears about proposals to limit bank credit-card interest rates helped drive the Dow down 120 points last Friday, the biggest one-day decline since Oct. 13, 1989. Even worse damage occurred in the high-flying over-the-counter market, which had been setting new records. With credit-card rates hovering near record highs this year, ...

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