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NEW YORK, Nov 14 AFP
November 15 2012, 08:19AM
US stocks tumbled on Wednesday as US President Barack Obama challenged Republicans to accept tax increases for the wealthy in a deal to avert the year-end fiscal cliff.
After opening higher helped by Cisco Systems's strong earnings, share prices slid and then turned more sharply downward after Obama laid out his terms for a deal in his first post-re-election media conference.
At the close the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 184.92 points (1.45 percent) at 12,571.26.
The broad-market S&P 500 lost 19.03 (1.38 percent) at 1,355.50, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite gave up 37.08 (1.29 percent) at 2,846.81.
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