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Wall Street Spoils the Party

By | 01.20.09 | 4:48 pm

I hate to bring this up, given all the good feelings today, but as Washington celebrates, Wall Street had a record Inauguration Day slide, led by fears that banks are in terrible shape and getting worse, CNBC reports.

Financial shares alone fell to a 14-year low, Bloomberg added: More…