In the shitter again

The Wall Street Journal has the story of another bad day on Wall Street:

Dire economic data knocked stocks sharply lower Wednesday, with the S&P 500 posting its worst single-day percentage decline since Black Monday 1987, as investors braced themselves for an ugly recession. The session's drop rekindled debate on Wall Street about whether last week's lows will hold up. Increasingly, it seems the record 936-point gain registered by the Dow Jones Industrial Average Monday wasn't enough to put the market on sure footing.
"I don't just think we're going to test the lows. I think we're going to violate them and break lower in a big way," said Kent Engelke, managing director at the brokerage Capitol Securities Management, in Richmond, Va. Referring to the possible fallout in the broader economy from the credit crisis, he added: "We don't yet know what that is, because this situation is so unprecedented. Every road sign has been obliterated."
The Dow's losses accelerated as the closing bell approached, leaving the blue-chip measure down 733.08 points for the day, off 7.9%, at 8577.91, hurt by losses in twenty-nine of its 30 components. The only exception was Coca-Cola, which climbed 1.1% after posting a strong profit report. The Dow has retraced more than half of its point gain between Friday's low and Monday's close. The decline Wednesday was the worst on a percentage basis since Oct. 26, 1987.

Rico says even Apple went down again...