Stocks fall nearly 680 points

By Carleton Bryant

December 1, 2008, 05:08PM

Stocks fell nearly 680 points on Monday, the first day after Wall Street's best week since the 1930s, Richard Gross is reporting.

So it looks like it's a bit premature to begin a chorus of "Happy Days Are Here Again."

Everybody keeps asking where this economy's "bottom" is, and the market continually shows it doesn't know the meaning of the word.

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