"Heavy selling in European financial markets and renewed worries about potentially resurgent U.S. inflation battered U.S. stocks and bonds yesterday.</br></br>The Dow Jones industrial average fell 51.78 points in heavy trading, closing at 3839.90. Other market indexes also dropped sharply.</br></br>Some Wall Street analysts saw the stock market slide as a signal that a deeper decline was beginning.</br></br>?ÛÏToday?Ûªs action is the correction I?Ûªve been looking for for two months,?Û? said Byron Wien, U.S. stock market strategist for the Wall Street investment firm Morgan Stanley & Co. He said he expects the Dow Jones aver-age to fall to 3500.</br></br>?ÛÏInvestors have learned since 1987 to buy the dips in the market,"" he said. ?ÛÏToday people realized that the market is not going to recover immediately from the 96-point decline in the Dow on Feb. 4.?Û? Stocks fell that day after the Federal Reserve announced a small rise in short-term interest rates."