The Wall Street Journal’s Marketwatch.com reports the DowJones Industrials down 514.45 points, a 5.7% drop, to 8,519.2. This was the 7th largest point drop for one day on record. Oil, a vital price commodity for Oklahoma, is down to $66/barrel. The Standard & Poors 500 index fell 6.1% to its lowest point since April, 2003, and the tech-heavy NASDAQ index dropped 4.8%.
Oh, well. When you’ve been smoking 2 packs of cigarets a day for 40 years, you can’t really expect to retire.
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