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Japan’s Nikkei 225 Index dropped by 4.61% to 18,540.68.

Many traders had hoped that such support measures, which could include an interest rate cut, would have come from Beijing over the weekend after its main stocks markets slumped 11 percent last week. The world’s second-largest economy moved two weeks ago to devalue its...

U.S. stock indices had gone almost 1,000 days without a 10 percent decline from their recent peaks, an unusually long stretch given that corrections usually happen once a year on average.

Samsung even held its special Samsung Unpacked 2015 preview event on August. 13, about a month before its normally scheduled September launches, for its new S6 Edge+ and Note 5 flagship smartphones so it can try to beat Apple in the marketplace.

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The dollar index, which measures its performance against a basket of six major currencies, fell 0.9pc to its lowest in two months.

(Close): Wall Street fell for a fifth consecutive trading session amid a dramatic global sell-off as fears over China’s slowing economy intensified.

Concerns about a China-led global economic slowdown and tumbling commodities prices had U.S. traders fearing the worst after a 5 percent decline in the both the S&P and Dow last Thursday and Friday.

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The minutes to the July 28-29 meeting of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee, released last week, showed both a caution over still-low inflation and a concern over China’s economic malaise.

Many traders had hoped Beijing would take support measures, such as an interest rate cut, over the weekend after China’s main stocks markets slumped 11 percent last week.

The S&P 500 slid 77.68 points, or 3.9 percent, to 1,893.21. Investors access the group via the Powershares DWA Momentum Portfolio, an exchange-traded fund that saw assets balloon to more than US$2 billion in August.

Oil prices fell. But investors also saw opportunity, moving fast and early to snap up some bargains.

It’s ugly. But before you panic, let’s put this in perspective. “As it stands, the FTSE 100 is on course to post its biggest weekly decline of the year so far and there’s not a great deal on the agenda that would appear to have the ability to salvage the...

The New York Stock Exchange invoked a rule saying market makers don’t have to disseminate price indications before the opening bell in an effort to make it easier and faster to open stocks on a volatile trading day.