US stocks fall as oil crash adds to pandemic fears

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All S&P 500 sector indexes fall 1.5% or more, with energy sliding for the seventh time in eight sessions

Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange. Picture: JOHANNES EISELE / AFP

With the collapse spilling into June futures contracts, equity investors became wary of the extent of the economic damage from sweeping lockdown measures that have halted business activity and sparked millions of layoffs. “When are countries and states going to reopen their economies, and what does that even mean? I'd expect us to see choppy days like this until we get some visibility and figure this out, but that's going to be a while,” warned Joe Saluzzi, co-manager of trading at Themis Trading in Chatham, New Jersey.

 

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