Stocks attempted to recover from an early sell-off during trading on Thursday but pulled back once again to end the session sharply lower. The Dow recorded its biggest one-day point drop in history, tumbling to its lowest closing level in six months.
Going into the close, the major averages saw further downside, ending the session at their worst levels of the day. The Dow plunged 1,190.95 points or 4.4 percent to 25,766.64, the Nasdaq dove 414.30 points or 4.6 percent to 8,566.48 and the S&P 500 plummeted 137.63 points or 4.4 percent to 2,978.76.
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