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Rough Day On Wall Street; Dow Has Sharpest Drop Of Year

The stock market has been having a good year, so you might have been expecting some sort of a "correction."

Today may have been that day.

Pulled down by continued concern over Europe's economic woes , the Dow Jones industrial average took its sharpest drop of any day so far this year — .

The S&P 500 fell about the same percentage.

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Mark Memmott is NPR's supervising senior editor for Standards & Practices. In that role, he's a resource for NPR's journalists – helping them raise the right questions as they do their work and uphold the organization's standards.
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