World stocks slide after Dow posts 6-year low (AP)

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World stocks slide after Dow posts 6-year low (AP)

Pedestrians are reflected on the electronic board at a securities firm in Tokyo Friday, Feb. 20, 2009. Japanese stocks extended its losing streak Friday as unrelenting fears about the global economy sent a key stock index hurtling to a quarter-century low. The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average fell 141.27 points, or 1.9 percent, to 7,416.38. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)AP – World stock markets fell sharply Friday as the selling pressure on Wall Street was expected to continue at the open later amid pessimism about the ability of governments to prevent the deepest global economic downturn in generations.


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