Dow tumbles over 600 points as growing AI anxiety, hot inflation rattle Wall Street

Fonte: New York Post

Wall Street extended its selloff on Friday, as weakness in tech and financial shares helped put the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq on track for their largest monthly percentage losses since March 2025, capping a February marked by worries over costs and disruption related to artificial intelligence, revived tariff uncertainties and simmering geopolitical tensions. All three major indexes were decisively lower, and poised to show steep weekly declines, with the blue-chip Dow on the verge of logging its biggest weekly drop since November. In afternoon trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 650 points, or 1.