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Nov 19, 2008, 20:55 GMT

Dow falls to five-year low

New York - US stocks slid more than 5 per cent on Wednesday, taking the Dow Jones Industrial Average below the 8,000 mark for the first time in five years, amid gloomy financial news and fear for US automakers. The economic fears were fed by the release of minutes from the last Federal Reserve board meeting that showed members believe the US economy will contract between now and mid-2009, and suggested more interest rate cuts could be necessary. Other economic news showed US consumer prices fell 1 per cent in October, the largest one-month decrease since inflation prices started being published in 1947. The blue chip Dow fell 427.47 points, or 5.1 per cent, to 7,997.28. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index lost 52.54 points, or 6.1 per cent, to 806.58. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index shed 96.85, or 6.5 per cent, to 1,386.42. 'Hideous day,' Bill Stone of PNC Wealth Management told Bloomberg financial news. 'It's hard to put a basement on this thing.' The New York tumble followed slides in Europe and Asia. The US currency rose to 79.87 euro cents from 79.25 euro cents on Tuesday. Against the Japanese currency, the dollar fell to 95.95 from 97.01 yen.

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