Investors agonizing over a faltering economy have sent the
stock market plunging all over again after two disheartening reports convinced
Wall Street that a recession, if not already here, is inevitable. The market's
despair - fed by a stream of disheartening economic data - propelled the Dow
Jones industrials down 733 points, or 7.8 percent, to their second-largest
point loss e may turn uphill again if farmers, whose bumper crops dragged
prices down, plant too little next season. "We literally went to the moon
and back," says one
discouraged Canadian wheat grower, AP
reported.