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Dow drops below 7,000 point mark - first time since 1997
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-03-03 07:59


Specialist Peter Mazza works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, March 2, 2009. Investors' despair about financial companies and the recession has brought the Dow Jones industrial average to another unwanted milestone: its first drop below 7,000 in more than 11 years. [Agencies]