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Urgent: U.S. stocks pull back after Fed rate hike

Xinhua, December 18, 2015 Adjust font size:

U.S. stocks snapped a three-day winning streak to end sharply lower Thursday, as investors assessed the impacts of U.S. Federal Reserve's first rate hike in nearly a decade.

The Dow dipped 1.43 percent, and the S&P 500 tumbled 1.50 percent, while the Nasdaq lost 1.35 percent. Endit