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U.S. Stocks Creep Up

ROLLER COASTER

Slides for third straight day, spooked by European debt crisis.

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Here we go again. For the third straight day, markets tumbled after being spooked by the European debt crisis and national economy. In another roller-coaster day, the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 100 points. Earlier in the day, stocks plunged, with the Dow dropping 308 points. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index closed less than 1 percent lower, but at one point dropped 3 percent during the day.

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