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    Dow plunges 1,175 points as stocks fall, wiping out all of this year's gains

    by James F. Peltz, Los Angeles Times Feb 05, 2018 3 minutes

    The Dow Jones industrial average plunged a record 1,175 points, or 4.6 percent, on Monday as a sell-off in the stock market gained momentum less than two weeks after the market set record highs.

    The percentage drop in the Dow, the famed average of 30-blue chip stocks, was well below its record single-day drop of 22.6 percent set Oct. 19, 1987, because stock prices have soared in the decades since then.

    There was no discounting the damage Friday and again Monday. The Dow has now tumbled 8.5 percent since reaching a record high

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