by John BIERS Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A collective sigh of relief swept across global trading floors on Tuesday as bargain hunters swooped in to buy Wall Street stocks, stemming a hemorrhage that had been spreading panic among investors. With Asian and European equity markets plunging, New York stocks started their trading day with another jaw-dropping fall as the Dow index dived nearly three percent, adding to the previous day’s […]
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Global stock rally pauses on Saudi tensions, profit-taking
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Wall Street’s vaunted Dow Jones Industrial Average was a lonely bright spot in the West on Tuesday as stocks were mainly down following an Asian rally. European equities markets retreated on worries over simmering Middle East tensions, sparked by a Saudi Arabian political crackdown that sent oil prices soaring on Monday. Wall Street opened higher and the Dow just barely scraped into positive territory at the close of trading, […]





