s and p 500

Stocks started the day up. By late morning, they'd fallen. Then, around lunchtime, they rose again. But as soon as they returned to positive territory, they dropped. In mid-afternoon, they surged before reversing once more to close slightly lower. With both Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled nearly 300 points, or 4.2 percent, to 6,736, its lowest level in nearly 12 years, as the government's latest efforts to stabilize AIG gave little comfort to worried investors. The S&P 500 fell 4.7 percent to 701 and Nasdaq declined 4 percent to 1,323....