Stock market today: Dow leads S&P 500, Nasdaq lower, deepening bruising sell-off as rate-cut doubts creep in
US stocks fell on Friday, set to add to Wall Street's steepest sell-off in over a month amid ebbing faith in a December interest-rate cut following the longest-ever government shutdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) slid roughly 1.2%. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) and the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) pared earlier losses, dropping around 0.6% and 0.4%, respectively, as tech stocks eased after Thursday's selloff. Another sea of red grips stocks following the previous, bruising session, which saw the major in ...