Trader Fred Demarco works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday Oct. 10, 2008. Wall Street capped its worst week ever with a wild session Friday that saw the Dow Jones industrials rocket within a 1,000 point range before closing with a relatively mild loss and the Nasdaq composite index actually end with a modest advance. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) By DAN STRUMPF AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - "There's nothing that's come anywhere near this." Alan Valdes, a trader for brokerage and financial services firm Hilliard Lyons, said past market crises _ the 1987 crash, the dot-com bust, the savings and loan collapse _ were "child's play" compared with the last two weeks on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrials were down 17 percent this week heading into trading Friday. Last week, stocks gyrated wildly because of the...
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