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It has been an ugly stretch for US stocks, which was capped by Wednesday’s more-than-830-point tumble for the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
To recap: The Dow and the S&P 500 index booked their worst one-day slumps since February 8, while the Nasdaq Composite Index put in its worst single-session skid since Brexit, when the UK voted to exit from the European Union, roiling global markets in 2016.