Wall St opens lower on US-China tensions; bank results pour in
Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower on Tuesday (Oct 14) with renewed trade tensions between US and China souring sentiment, while investors also parsed results from big US banks that kicked off the third-quarter earnings season.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 195.7 points, or 0.42 per cent, at the open to 45,871.89.
The S&P 500 fell 52.2 points, or 0.78 per cent, to 6,602.49, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 306.6 points, or 1.35 per cent, to 22,388.043. REUTERS
