U.S. stocks fall amid Greek crisis

Washington Post
May 5, 2010

Fears that the Greek debt crisis might spread to other European countries -- and perhaps across the Atlantic -- pummeled U.S. stocks on Tuesday, just as investor confidence was building that the worst of the economic crisis was over.

The markets suffered their worst day since February as the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index both fell more than 2 percent.

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