Investors Flee Wall Street

The Dow Jones industrial average was down 512.46 points, or 4.31 percent, at 11,383.98. - Credit: Reuters/Graphic

By Angela Moon

NEW YORK | Fri Aug 5, 2011 12:13am EDT

(Reuters) - Investors fled Wall Street in the worst stock-market selloff since the middle of the financial crisis in early 2009 in what has turned into a full-fledged correction. ... (cont'd)

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