Investors just can't catch a break. A day after closing the books on the worst month for the Dow Jones Industrial Average
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Giving the steady stream of dismal news coming from Europe a break, the culprit today originated on U.S. soil, with a brutal May jobs report in the U.S. sparking today's sell-off. Last month, the U.S. economy added a paltry 69,000 jobs, well below the consensus expectation of 155,000. Rubbing salt in the wound, both March and April's jobs figures were revised downward as well. This pits investors against a threefold threat of an accelerating European debt crisis, slowing growth in China, and an increasingly tepid recovery in the United States.
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