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Wall Street opens slightly stronger amid stimulus hopes, easing trade tensions
Sep 20, 2019 10:58 AM

Wall Street's main indexes dropped sharply on Friday after Chinese agriculture officials who were due to visit US farm states next week canceled their trip to Montana, dampening early optimism on US-China trade talks.

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At 1:18 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 119.02 points, or 0.44%, at 26,975.77, the S&P 500 was down 16.97 points, or 0.56%, at 2,989.82. The Nasdaq Composite was down 85.32 points, or 1.04%, at 8,097.56.

First Published:Sept 20, 2019 7:58 PM IST

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