Dow drops more than 180 points

Stock prices dropped sharply on Wall Street today with the Dow industrials tumbling by triple digits for a second day on a spate of bad news.

The Dow Jones industrial average finished the day down 183.30, or 1.8%, at 10,241.12, the Nasdaq composite index fell 29.32 to 1,959.24, and the Standard & Poor's 500 index declined 19.38 to 1,171.65.