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On our broadcast tonight, alarm bells. More wreckage 파산 <상태> on Wall Street and across the county. The markets are way down. More Americans are out of work as jobless claims now hit a 16-year high. Driving a deal. Congress tells the car makers come back with a plan if you want the billions in bailout 구제금융 money.

 

And into thin air. The latest from our own Anne Curry and her team as they attempt to conquer Kilimanjaro. And the massive discovery of an underground glacier 빙하 is just not here on earth. Nightly News begins now. From NBC News world headquarters in New York, this is NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.

 

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Good evening. It just became official just today. The wild ride on Wall Street. The bull market 강세시장 that ran from 2002 to 2007 has been erased. All that profit is now gone. As of today 오늘 현재로, the markets down by almost half just this year. 15% just this week in a big sell-off 매도폭주. The DOW lost just under 445 points today. Closing now at 7552. The last time it was here was October of 02. The problem is fear. Fears about jobs, financial institutions and credit. The auto industry and a new term 말, 전문어 in our lexicon 어휘목록, it’s an awful one called deflation <통화 수축으로 인한> 물가하락.

 

Today, fear on the floor, the New York Stock Exchange. As investors worried that country is in the midst of ~의 한가운데에 an economic crisis unlike anything seen in decades. “they just got swept up 쓸어모으다 in the tsunami 해일 of selling that came in.” The DOW losing more than 5.5% today, its second strait day of huge losses. The S&P 500 down nearly 7%. Closing at its lowest level since 1997 as investors reacted to a rash <불쾌한 일들의> 빈발, 다발 of more bad news.

 

More evidence today that consumers and businesses’ ability to access credit is tightening yet again while the Labor Department reported more than 4 million people are collecting unemployment benefits 실업수당. That’s the highest level in 26 years. In reaction, the Bush administration 행정부 changed its policy, saying it will sign congress’s bill 법안 to extend unemployment benefits.

 

And an impact on consumer behavior. Americans are snapping 탁 닫다 their wallets shut just as the country heads into the critical holiday shopping season. It’s a spending strike that’s causing prices on everything from food to cars to plummet 폭락하다. Consumer prices in October dropped to the most on record with tomato prices falling 5.4%. Televisions dropping more than 3%. And some women’s apparel 의류 off 3.2%.

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