BREAKING: Stock Market Plunges Over 1,000 Points At Monday Opening Bell Over Worries of China Collapse

The stock market took a major plunge at the opening bell today piling on insult to injury of a sharply declining market week last week. But America isn’t alone. Thanks to the developing collapse in China, markets around the world are tumbling.

Markets around the world plunged today after China’s market fell 8.5 percent. The loses have been mounting in China for the last month causing investors the world over to worry that China could collapse utterly.

The Dow was 783 points, or 4.8 percent, lower as of 9:40 a.m. Eastern time. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index dropped 87 points, or 4.5 percent, to 1,882. The Nasdaq composite fell 247 points, or 5.1 percent, to 4,465 points.

But at the morning bell today US stocks plunged

The decline extended the losses of last week, already the worst for the stock market in four years.

Investors grew nervous two weeks ago when China devalued its currency, raising concerns that the world’s second-largest economy — a huge market for American products — is not nearly as healthy as it appeared.

Stocks quickly bounced back somewhat, and a half-hour into trading the Dow was down about 600 points. The biggest single-day point decline for the Dow was 777 points, during the financial crisis in September 2008.

The low point for the Dow on Monday morning was a decline of 1,089 points, or 6.6 percent. That is nowhere near the drops of the stock market crashes of 1929 and 1987. But it was more than enough to get investors’ attention.

Are we witnessing the beginning of a global correction that will hurt everyone?

Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago-based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com, BigJournalsim.com and all Breitbart News' other sites, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, and many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs across the country to discuss his opinion editorials and current events as well as appearing on TV networks such as CNN, Fox News, Fox Business Network, and various Chicago-based news programs. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the book "Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture" which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of PubliusForum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston and follow him on Twitter, on Google Plus , and Facebook.

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