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Urgent: U.S. stocks plunge amid oil weakness, Fed Beige Book

Xinhua, January 14, 2016 Adjust font size:

U.S. stocks suffered big losses Wednesday on the Federal Reserve's Beige Book, while renewed pressure on oil prices continued to weigh on Wall Street.

The Dow dropped 2.21 percent, the S&P 500 slumped 2.50 percent, while the Nasdaq dived 3.41 percent. Enditem