1.0 link 133490 <![CDATA[World stocks slump on Dow open]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/10/post_178_n_133490.html LONDON &mdash; Europe's stock markets plunged Friday after Wall Street opened a breathtaking 7 percent lower _ below the 8,000 level _ but they soon recouped some of those losses when the Dow Jones index made a partial comeback.

Following the Dow's modest retracement, the FTSE was trading 282.94 points, or 6.6 percent, lower at 4,030.86 in afternoon trading London time, while the DAX was down 401.92 points, or 8.2 percent, at 4,485.08. France's CAC-40 was 284.43 points, or 8.3 percent,...

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