How are stock-market benchmarks performing?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.57% DJIA, -1.57% traded 443 points, or 1.6%, lower at about 27,851, and was down at 27,771 at the session’s lows. The S&P 500 index SPX, -1.78% fell 82 points, or 2.4%, at 3,373; while the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -2.39% traded 470 points lower, or 4.1%, at 10,975.
On Thursday, the Dow ended with a loss of 807.77 points, or 2.8%, at 28,292.73, after dropping more than 1,000 points at its session low. The S&P 500 closed 125.78 points lower, down 3.5%, at 3,455.06. The Nasdaq Composite tumbled 598.34 points, or 5%, to end at 11,458.10. The declines marked the biggest one-day drops for all three indexes since June.
The fall came a day after the S&P 500 claimed its 22nd record close of the year, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite arrived at its 43rd such all-time high and the Dow topped the 29,000 level for the first time since February. Thursday’s fall snapped a four-day win streak for the Nasdaq and a 10-day run of gains for the S&P 500’s tech sector.
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