Plunging Dollar Sets Stock Slide in Motion As Bonds Also Ease.

Assesses the economic activity in the stock market on September 22, 2003. Amount of drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, suggesting a plunging American dollar is worrying investors; View of analysts that the reaction of investors was an over-reaction; Financial performance of the 10-year Treasury note; Comments from John O'Donoghue, senior stock trader at brokerage firm Credit Suisse First Boston; Financial performances of the American dollar, Japanese Yen and euro, which were linked to the decision of several finance ministers to put pressure on the yen and yuan.