NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks slid further on Tuesday as a sell-off in financial shares accelerated and investors worried that the widening impact of the credit crisis threatened to drag the economy into recession.
The S&P financial index broke below its July 15 low to hit its lowest level since May 1997.
The Dow Jones industrial average was down 333.57 points, or 3.35 percent, at 9,621.93. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 41.77 points, or 3.95 percent, at 1,015.12. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 76.95 points, or 4.13 percent, at 1,786.01.
(Reporting by Ellis Mnyandu; Editing by Kenneth Barry)
