Dow Drops More Than 200 Points

Stock prices plunged Wednesday after a stronger-than-expected rise in consumer inflation intensified Wall Street's fear that interest rates will keep climbing. In mid-afternoon trading, the Dow industrials were down 204.99 to 11,214.90, the Nasdaq composite had fallen 28.57 to 2,200.56 and the Standard & Poor's 500 index was down 19.44 at 1,272.64.

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