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More stock market woe: Blame the hurricanes

As of 11 a.m. Eastern, the entirety of Monday's 936-point rise in the Dow Jones industrial average had evaporated. The Dow was down 280 points.

I guess investors are not quite buying the spin that September's 2.8 percent drop in industrial production in the United States, the sharpest drop in 34 years, can be blamed on a strike at Boeing and Hurricanes Ike and Gustav.

That's how the Wall… » Full Story on Salon.com
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