Thursday's market wrap

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And now we get a check on the closing market figures,... following the announcement of President Trump's tariff plan.
Wall Street plunged on Thursday,... as investors recoiled on Trump's action against China.
The Dow Jones industrial average shed more than 700 points,.. or 3-percent to 23,957,... even briefly falling into correction territory.
The S&P 500 slid 2-and-a-half percent to finish 2,643-point-7,... and the Nasdaq fell about the same percentage amount to 7,166-point-6.
European markets were also slammed,... falling to three week lows due to worries of a global trade war.
The Euro Stoxx 50 fell over one-and-a-half percent to finish 3,348,... while Britain's FTSE 100 closed down over one-percent at 6,952.
Germany's DAX 30 lost one-point-7 percent to close at 12,100 and France's CAC 40 gave up one-point-4 percent at 5,167.