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Fear of global slump sparks share market plunge
By Nick Beams
4 September 2002
World share markets took a plunge on Tuesday, suffering their biggest falls since the immediate aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The slide began in the East with a 3.2 percent drop in the Tokyo market and followed the sun as first European markets, and then Wall Street, fell by between 3 and 5 percent.