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Stocks: Nasdaq pounded as shutdown drags on
USA TODAY Stocks were lower at midday — with the Nasdaq taking a pounding — as the political standoff in Washington continued and the partial government shutdown stretched into its eighth day. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 0.6%, the Standard & Poor … Stock Market News for October 8, 2013 – Market News Stocks Post Broad, Soft Losses; Amgen, Vertex Drag On Nasdaq Debt Default Pressure; Today's Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, Nasdaq … |