<p>Investors continue to suffer as stocks hit a multiyear low that has cut the total value of the U.S. market to half its March 2000 peak.</p>
<p>The Dow Jones industrial average, Standard & Poor's 500 and Nasdaq composite are now at their most depressed levels in half a decade. The slide has brought total bear market losses to $8.4 trillion, Wilshire Associates says.</p>