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Wall Street tumbles again, world equities at one-year low

In equities, Wall Street slid as risk-appetite showed no signs of picking up and volatility spiked. The Cboe Volatility index ended the day up at 24.98, its highest close since Feb. 12, a day after the S&P 500 dropped more than 3 percent in its biggest daily decline since Feb. 8.

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Wall Street tumbles again, world equities at one-year low
In equities, Wall Street slid as risk-appetite showed no signs of picking up and volatility spiked, Image source: Reuters
Written By: Reuters
Updated: Fri, Oct 12, 2018
09:02 am
New York, Reuters
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Wall Street extended its slide into a sixth session and a global equity index fell to a 1-year low on Thursday as investors feared an escalating U.S. trade war with China and risks from a recent climb in interest rates.

The Nasdaq flirted with correction territory, sliding as much as 10.3 percent from its Aug. 29 closing record high, before paring losses to end off those levels and avoiding confirming a correction.

MSCI`s gauge of stock performance in 47 countries dropped 2.2 percent, falling below its February lows to trade at its lowest since October 2017.

Gold, typically seen as a safe-haven asset during times of extreme volatility, rose as sliding global stock markets prompted risk-wary investors to buy the metal, and a drop in U.S. Treasury bond yields helped push the dollar lower.

In equities, Wall Street slid as risk-appetite showed no signs of picking up and volatility spiked. The Cboe Volatility index ended the day up at 24.98, its highest close since Feb. 12, a day after the S&P 500 dropped more than 3 percent in its biggest daily decline since Feb. 8.

"When you have a shock day like yesterday, people are caught off guard, and there are a lot of adjustments going on below the surface. There tends to be a lot of volatility the day after a shock day, and over the next several days or weeks," said Keith Lerner, chief market strategist at SunTrust Advisory Services in Atlanta.

The selloff came as investors prepared for the start of U.S. quarterly earnings, with JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Citigroup due to report Friday.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 545.91 points, or 2.13 percent, to 25,052.83, the S&P 500 lost 57.31 points, or 2.06 percent, to 2,728.37 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 92.99 points, or 1.25 percent, to 7,329.06.

The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index of leading regional shares lost 2 percent.

U.S. Treasury yields fell to one-week lows as stocks sold off. A weaker-than-expected rise in U.S. inflation for September also added to Treasuries bullish tone.

In late afternoon trading, U.S. 10-year note yields were at 3.146 percent, down from 3.225 percent late on Wednesday. Earlier in the global session, 10-year yields hit a one-week low of 3.124 percent.

U.S. consumer prices rose less than analysts had forecast in September, reducing expectations the pace of inflation is accelerating despite a tightening labour market.

Whether the lower reading will quell expectations the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates again in December remains to be seen, said Yousef Abbasi, global market strategist at INTL FCStone in New York.

"The thing people are trying to hang their hat on is a cooler CPI read. That potentially gets us to rally," Abbasi said.

The dollar fell to a near two-week low against a basket of currencies.

The dollar index fell 0.52 percent, with the euro up 0.63 percent to $1.1591.

Oil prices slumped to two-week lows as global stock markets fell, with investor sentiment made more bearish by an industry report showing U.S. crude inventories rising more than expected.

Brent crude futures fell $2.83 to settle at $80.26 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell $2.20 to settle at $70.97 a barrel.

Spot gold rose 2.6 percent to $1,225.26.

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