Economy/Business News Alert

After election, U.S. investors dump stocks

Investors are looking around the world in the wake of President Obama's reelection victory, and they don't like what they see.

The U.S. stock market dove more than 2 percent in morning trading Wednesday, as measured by the S&P 500 index. The Dow Jones industrial average was off 290 points, or 2.2 percent, at a little before 11 a.m.

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