USA Today Editoweb 10 october 2008

US stocks extend huge losses over credit concerns

Wall Street extended its devastating losses Friday, but prices swung sharply as investors scooped up some shares decimated by more than a week of intense and panicked selling. The Dow Jones industrials, down nearly 700 points in the opening minutes of trading, recovered to an advance of more than 100 before turning sharply lower again, and the other major indexes fluctuated widely as well.

McCain proposes suspending mandatory stock sales
John McCain is proposing a plan that would suspend mandatory sale of stocks in retirement funds.

Obama says McCain trying to stoke anger, division

Democrat Barack Obama accused Republican John McCain of trying to divide the country Friday, but he let other Democrats handle harsher attacks while he kept his message mostly upbeat.

McCain TV ad raises Obama's links to ex-radical

Republican John McCain, trailing in polls and searching for a way to gain ground, assailed Democratic rival Barack Obama on Friday in a sharply worded TV ad that said: "When convenient, he worked with terrorist Bill Ayers. When discovered, he lied."

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