The weakness comes ahead of tomorrow's October jobs report, expected to reflect damage from the economic downturn. Today, retailers told of declining sales last month, as consumers avoided many non-essential purchases.
The Dow fell 443 points to 8,695.
The S&P declined about 48 points to 904.
And the Nasdaq composite was down nearly 73 points to 1,608.
Declining issues outnumbered advancing stocks by a 5 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange.
Volume on the NYSE came to 5.9 billion shares. Nasdaq stock market volume was 2.4 billion shares.
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