Edgar Degas Ballet Rehearsal painting

Edgar Degas Ballet Rehearsal painting
Edgar Degas Absinthe painting
its fifth-largest point slide ever and its lowest close since March 14, 2000. Three stocks fell for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange (news - web sites).The battered shares of Home Depot (NYSE:HD - news) and the Wall Street house J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc. (NYSE:JPM - news) and computer maker International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM - news) accounted for more than half the Dow's drop.The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index (^IXIC - news) finished at 3,074.68, its lowest close since Nov. 4, 1999. The Nasdaq fell 93.81 points on Thursday for a loss of 2.96 percent. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index (^SPX - news) slumped 34.81 points, or 2.55 percent, at 1,329.78, in its lowest close to date this year.Wall Street has been swamped by fears that high oil prices, a slowing U.S. economy and a weak European single currency would depress corporate America's earnings.