Prices fall in big way on Wall St.
Here are the stocks of local interest that are published daily in the Butler Eagle.
This list shows what their stock prices in dollars were on Jan. 2, 2008, and where they ended on Dec. 31.
Wall Street's stats for 2008 show how bad the year was:
• The average price of a share listed on the New York Stock Exchange plunged 45 percent.
• The Dow Jones industrial average fell 33.8 percent, making it the Dow's worst year since 1931.
• The Standard & Poor's 500 index, the indicator most watched by market professional, slumped 38.5 percent.
• Investors lost $6.9 trillion as selling reduced the value of stocks across the market.
