Stocks sink on '87 crash anniversary
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NEW YORK  -Caterpillar Inc.'s warning that the housing slump was infecting the wider economy sent U.S. stocks tumbling by the most in more than two months on Friday, in a drop that was made more unnerving as it marked the 20th anniversary of the 1987 market crash.
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House prices suffered their worst  decline since at least 1987 in the second quarter from a year  earlier as the housing downturn has deepened, according to the  S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index.
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European and Asian stock markets plunged Monday following declines on Wall Street last week amid investor pessimism over the U.S. government's stimulus plan to prevent a recession.
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Stocks tumbled on Tuesday, sending the benchmark S&P 500 index to its biggest one-day slide in more than 3-1/2 years as a sell-off in China's equity market fanned worries that stock valuations there are too high and some data indicated U.S. economic growth may slow.
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It was a bad week for the stock market until Friday, and then it got much worse.
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Stocks slid sharply on Friday, after bellwether stocks such as Caterpillar and Google posted disappointing earnings.
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Japanese stocks plunged Friday on the first day of trading of 2008, closing more than 4 per cent lower at their weakest levels in a year and a half as a slumping dollar and fears of a US recession battered investor confidence.
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Stocks skidded on Friday, with the Nasdaq down more than 2 percent, as data showing weak job growth in December and rising unemployment added to warning signs of a recession.
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Stocks fell on Friday, giving Wall Street its worst week in more than four years, as a diminishing appetite for riskier assets fueled a further rout in global equity markets.
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Twenty years ago today was the worst day in Dow history. What can you do before it happens again?
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Stocks dropped 1 percent on Friday as investors took profits after two days of sharp gains and before the weekend.
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Asian stocks tumbled anew on Friday after the latest salvo of sour signals about the U.S. economy pummeled Wall Street, sending the benchmark S&P 500  down 3 percent to a 15-month nadir.
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Stocks suffered their worst one-day slide in more than eight months on Tuesday, driving the blue-chip Dow average down almost 200 points, after China's main equity index plunged on concerns that share valuations there had become overextended.
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U.S. stocks fell on Friday, with major indexes sliding 1 percent, after bellwether stocks, including Caterpillar Inc.  and Google Inc , posted disappointing earnings.
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Stocks tumbled on Monday on worries the housing slump was dragging on the economy at the same time inflation was posing a growing menace.
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Friday is the 20th anniversary of the October 1987 stock market crash, the largest ever one-day fall in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Analysts continue to argue over the causes, and programme trading was accused of turning a decline into a rout. Some blamed the great hurricane that stopped London's traders getting to work the previous Friday - they had to wait until the Monday to react to continuing sharp falls in the markets.
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A week of gut-wrenching losses in the stock market ended on Friday with the Dow Jones industrial average falling 59.91 points, to 12,099.30.