Stocks slide, Wall Street seeks answers

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NEW YORK - Only weeks old, the new year is already nudging its way into Wall Street's record books. Far from welcome news, however, the stats only underscore the nervousness investors are feeling about the economy.
A week that began with a 172-point jump in the Dow Jones industrial average gave way to a 277-point plunge Tuesday and a 307-point slide on Thursday. Meanwhile, the Standard & Poor's 500 index, the index closely watched by market professionals, is on track to show its worst-ever performance in January.

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