Last Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial average fell points, or 4. That is, until the following Monday.

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On the first day of trading the since Standard and Poor's downgraded U. Now, with two of the ten worst day in history of the Dow Jones occurring within a week of one another, murmurs of the U. Still, despite the severity of drops, neither were high enough to become the top drop ever. That title goes to September 29, , when the Dow Jones fell a total of points, or 7 percent, during the depths of the financial crisis.

And in terms of percentage decline, the U. On October 19, , for example, the Dow sank an entire Here are the ten biggest point drops of the Dow Jones Industrial Average counting back to , according to the Associated Press: NEWS Highline Science Education Weird News Business TestKitchen Tech College Media. POLITICS Pollster Heroin Epidemic Donald Trump Racial Inequality US Senate Election Results HuffPost Hill Police Brutality Hate Crimes Supreme Court Congress So That Happened. LIFESTYLE Healthy Living Travel Style Taste Home Relationships Horoscopes.

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