NEW YORK — In another roller-coaster day on Wall Street, stocks continued to fluctuate in volatile trading as investors remained uncertain what to do in this bruising bear market. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged almost 700 points right at the open, mounted a full recovery that put the Dow in the black for a few minutes, before selling off again. The Dow staged another recovery in late trading and the Dow was up 136 points to 8,715. MORE ACTION: IMF chief calls for countries to act forcefully together ON DEADLINE: Recordings of Treasury conference call offer 'rare inside look,' In the past 10 trading sessions, the Dow has dropped 28%, eclipsing the nearly 22.6% drop it experienced during the one-day crash in 1987. The current two-week sell-off has been so severe and wiped out so much stockholder wealth, that some Wall...
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