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Thursday, March 5, 2026
From the Liveblog of
Thursday, March 5, 2026
Dow falls over 2% on latest spike in oil prices
Losses on Wall Street deepened as the latest oil price surge added to worries that supply disruptions connected to the Middle East war will spur on inflation.
Near 18:30 GMT, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 47,681.72, down more than 1,050 points or 2.2 percent.
The broad-based S&P 500 fell 1.4 percent to 6,775.85, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index slid 1.3 percent to 22,515.70.
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