“Stock prices are swinging sharply on Wall Street, with investors still selling heavily but also scooping up stocks that have been decimated by more than a week of huge losses. The Dow Jones industrials are showing the market’s volatility. They fell nearly 700 points soon after trading began, regained all of that deficit to show an advance — and then turned lower again. … At the start of today’s session, losses for the year totaled a staggering $8.3 trillion, as measured by the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Composite Index, which tracks 5,000 U.S.-based companies representing almost all stocks traded in the United States.” (10/10/08)