Stocks Dip on Growth Concerns

As in February, investors spent most of the first full trading week of March hoping for new details in U.S.-China trade negotiations.   While they waited, stock benchmarks drifted downward.  From Monday’s open to Friday’s close, the S&P 500 lost 2.55%, while the Dow Industrials took a 2.66% fall, and the Nasdaq Composite weakened 3.12%.  The MSCI EAFE index tracking developed markets outside the U.S. and Canada fell 1.09%.

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