The two-day decline was the biggest such drop since August 1990.

Stocks ended a two-day decline yesterday with an advance led by retailing issues.

Gold futures prices rallied, ending a two-day decline.

The two-day decline shaved 8.6 percent off the share price.

Some of the worst selling might be over after the biggest two-day decline in stock prices in more than four years.

When the attacks stopped, prices went into a two-day decline.

That was the largest two-day decline in more than four years.

Oil prices continued to fall yesterday, bringing the two-day decline to 6.5 percent.

After a two-day decline, the stock market rose slightly yesterday in active trading, following the Federal Reserve's effort to prop up the dollar.

The shares fell 42 pence, to 550 pence in London, bringing its two-day decline to more than 11 percent.