Stocks plunge as attention returns to weak economy

NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks plunged again Wednesday as investors turned their attention back to the weak economy and Europe's debt problems. More than half of the big gains that followed a Federal Reserve pledge to extend super-low interest rates vanished. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 232 ...

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