World News Network
Sunday, 11 May 2008
 
NEW YORK - Wall Street ended the week with a big decline as investors grappled with two of the biggest threats to the economy: fallout from turmoil in the credit market and surging energy prices. All three major indexes suffered losses for the week. Insurer American International Group Inc. helped send the Dow Jones industrial average down about 120 points after posting a wider-than-expected first-quarter loss that rekindled anxiety about the strained state of the global financial system. AIG reported it lost $7.81 billion its second straight quarterly loss and revealed plans to raise $12.5...
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 A trader blows a bubble as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday Oct. 12, 2006. Stocks advanced Thursday, with the Dow Jones industrial average crossing 11,900 for the first time, after big consumer names like McDonald´s Co
photo: AP /Richard Drew

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