U.S. stocks fell off a cliff Monday in the wake of rising interest rates, with the Dow index plunging more than 1,150 points to suffer its biggest-ever single-day loss.The 30-issue Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 1,175.21 points, or 4.60 percent, to end at 24,345.75 after briefly dropping nearly 1,600 points. It fell for the third straight day, erasing its gains for the year.(Getty)It marked the biggest-ever single-day loss for the Dow, far surpassing the 777-point sell-off on Sept. 29, 2008 at the start of the global financial crisis touched off by the collapse of U.S. investment bank Le…READ FULL ARTICLE