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Urgent: U.S. stocks tumble on disappointing GDP data

Xinhua, January 31, 2015 Adjust font size:

U.S. stocks slumped after a choppy session on Friday, with the three major indices notching their biggest monthly losses in a year, as the U.S. government announced the economy grew lower in the final quarter of 2014.

The Dow dropped nearly 1.5 percent, the S&P 500 fell 1.3 percent while the Nasdaq went down 1.0 percent. Endite