The government’s financial bailout plan did not pass in Congress and stocks plunged an ALL-TIME Record One-Day Loss on Wall Street. SELL Orders poured in – The selling was so intense that just 162 stocks rose and 3073 dropped on the NYSE . The prior record one-day loss of 685 points on the first trading day after 9/11 was crushed by the closing bell Monday Sept 29 , Down 780 Points.