Stock market crashes

NEW YORK.Fear swept across the financial markets Monday, leading the Dow Jones industrials to close at 777 points lower, after the government's financial bailout package failed the House. As the vote was shown on TV, stocks plunged, the biggest one day fall, surpassing the 721-point previous record, on the day after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks as investors fled to the safety of the credit markets.