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Urgent: U.S. stocks plunge on global selloff, oil slide

Xinhua, January 8, 2016 Adjust font size:

U.S. stocks slumped for a second straight day on Thursday, as global markets rout and falling oil prices continued to weigh on Wall Street.

The Dow tumbled 2.32 percent, and the S&P 500 dropped 2.37 percent, while the Nasdaq shed 3.03 percent. Endit