NEW YORK - Wall Street suffered its second big drop in a week yesterday, with investors worried about fallout from the credit crisis at banks and a dollar that keeps getting weaker. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 360 points - just about matching its pullback of last Thursday. Investors worried about comments by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo concerning conflicts of interest in the mortgage industry that exacerbated declines among bank stocks. Oil hit a record, rising above $98 a barrel before retreating, and gold pushed higher. Those moves were made worse by an anemic dollar. The fear with a huge drop like yesterday's is that it is part not just of a correction, which is a 10 percent pullback in stock prices, but that it could be the beginning of a bear market. The Dow fell 360.92, or 2.64 percent, to 13,300.02.
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