US stocks tumble in first day of 2019 trading

Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The U.S. stock market started 2019 in negative territory, as a slowing Chinese economy weighed on equities. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 1.6 percent in early trading, Wednesday morning. The tech heavy Nasdaq also opened lower, down 1.7 percent. The S&P 500, however, was up 0.9 percent. “I …

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