The dollar took its steepest one-day drop in years as the financial crisis eroded the nation's basic measure of value, helping to drive U.S. stocks sharply lower and the dollar-based prices of oil and gold sharply higher. -
By Anthony Faiola, Peter Whoriskey and Renae Merle
Currency's Dive Points to Further Pain
The dollar took its steepest one-day drop in years as the financial crisis eroded the nation's basic measure of value, helping to drive U.S. stocks sharply lower and the dollar-based prices of oil and gold sharply higher.-
By Anthony Faiola, Peter Whoriskey and Renae Merle