The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid below 7,000 points for the first time since 1997, tumbling 137.87 points (1.95 per cent) to 6,925.06 in the first exchanges. --PHOTO: AFPNEW YORK - WALL Street stocks dropped from 12-year lows at the opening on Monday on heightened financial woes after a new bailout announced for insurance giant AIG.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid below 7,000 points for the first time since 1997, tumbling 137.87 points (1.95 per cent) to 6,925.06 in the first exchanges.
The Nasdaq fell 18.69 points (1.36 per cent) to 1,359.15 while the broad-market Standard & Poor's 500 index shed 15.13 points (2.06 per cent) to 719.96.
Market action came after the US government unveiled a fresh aid plan of US$30 billion for AIG to stave off collapse of the ailing insurance company as it revealed massive new losses.
'The market doesn't like it because it shows how immersed the government has become in managing a controlled burn of this zombie organisation that is considered too systemically important to die of natural causes,' said Patrick O'Hare at Briefing.com.
World markets were under pressure after banking giant HSBC said it was seeking a huge capital injection to survive the global economic crisis. -- AFP
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