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Urgent: U.S. stocks tumble amid economic data

Xinhua, May 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

U.S. stocks suffered big losses on Tuesday, as investors digested a string of data releases and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's speech.

Both the Dow and the S&P 500 shed over 1.0 percent, while the Nasdaq dropped 1.1 percent. Endite