NEW YORK (AP) - It's been a good year so far for the stock market. So, yesterday's decline of nearly 100 points for the Dow was the worst of 2012, so far.
The Dow dropped 97 points, or 0.8 percent, to 12,781.
The S&P fell seven points to 1,343. The Nasdaq declined 16 points to 2,916.
Declining stocks outnumbered gainers by about 4-to-3. Volume was about average, at 4 billion shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
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