Wall Street broke a two-day slide today as investors cherry-picked insurance, technology and home-building stocks on bits of welcome news for those industries

Wall Street again surrendered to investors’ anxiety about the financial sector today, sending the Dow Jones industrials down 240 points and back into bear market territory.

CONCERNS about potential escalation of violence in Iraq and the fallout from resurgent crude oil prices may send investors scurrying this week, leaving US stocks vulnerable to a pullback, analysts believe.