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Urgent: U.S. stocks plummet amid global rout

Xinhua, August 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

U.S. stocks continued to plunge Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average diving more than 500 points, as a rout in global markets continued to intensify.

The Dow shed over 3.5 percent, the S&P 500 slumped 3.9 percent, and the Nasdaq sank 3.8 percent. Enditem