The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 2.39% to end at 21,200.55 points, while the S&P 500 gained 1.15% to 2,475.56
All three main US stock indexes rebounded strongly from Monday's brutal selloff as the coronavirus outbreak forced entire nations to shut down
The Dow Jones Industrial Average <.DJI> dropped 3.12% to end at 18,576.04 points, while the S&P 500 <.SPX> lost 2.96% to 2,236.7
Trading on the Indian stock exchanges was halted as the S&P BSE Sensex fell 10 per cent, triggering an automatic 45-minute halt
Over half the CNX100 stocks still expensive; Nifty, too, in higher valuation zone compared to 2008-09
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 913.21 points, or 4.55%, to 19,173.98
Nasdaq outperformed other major indexes, ending 2.3% higher, fueled by gains in Amazon.com, Microsoft and Facebook
The S&P 500 opened lower by 4.62 points, or 0.19%, at 2,393.48
The US central bank relaunched a financial crisis-era purchase of short-term corporate debt to help companies be able to continue paying workers and buy supplies through the pandemic
Under the Commercial Paper Funding Facility, first used in 2008, the central bank will buy short-term corporate debt directly from the companies that issue it
The United States has in recent days received a taste of the types of disruptions that the virus has wrought in other countries, including Italy and South Korea.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1,985 points, or 9.36%, to 23,185.62, the S&P 500 gained 230.38 points, or 9.29%, to 2,711.02
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Wall Street's most recent selloff comes as countries around the world grapple with how to contain the fast-moving coronavirus and its economic effects
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2,352.6 points, or 9.99%, to 21,200.62, the S&P 500 lost 260.74 points, or 9.51%, to 2,480.64
The central bank will offer $500 billion in a three-month repo operation at 1:30 pm eastern Thursday
For many investors, Wall Street's recent deep losses are marking the end of the longest S&P 500 bull market on record
The benchmark S&P 500 index was 17.6 per cent below its all-time peak hit on Feb. 19
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street stocks plunged on Wednesday, with the Dow <.DJI> confirming a bear market for the first time since the financial crisis after the World Health Organization called the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.
Oil prices rebounded from Monday's largest percentage drop since the 1991 Gulf War, with Brent crude rising 10 per cent