Oil at $140.39, gold surging $32.80 to $915.10, scarily bearish analysts – it was all too much for Wall Street on Thursday.

The Dow slid 358.41 points – 3 per cent – to a 21-month low of 11,452.42 and the S&P 500 lost 38.82 points – 2.9 per cent – to 1,283.15. More…