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The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq cratered into a bear market on Thursday as a shock move by President Donald Trump to suspend travel from Europe rattled investors already shaken by fears of a global recession on the back of a coronavirus pandemic.
Trading on Wall Street was halted minutes after the opening bell as the S&P 500 slid 7% and triggered a 15-minute cutout. The indexes are now more than 24% below their intraday record highs hit in February.
The announcement knocked the S&P 1500 airlines index .SPCOMAIR down 10.1% with cruise liners Carnival Corp (CCL.N) and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd (RCL.N) shedding 17% and 24%, respectively.
Boeing (BA.N) slumped another 15% after J.P.Morgan cut its long-term “overweight” rating on the planemaker’s shares. The stock, already under pressure from the grounded 737 MAX jets, has lost more than 40% this year on the added hit from the virus outbreak.
American Airlines (AAL.O) and United Airlines (UAL.O) plummeted over 13%.
“It’s not just the fear of the economy going weak, but basically being on the brink of shutting down,” said Dennis Dick, proprietary trader at Bright Trading LLC in Las Vegas.
“It’s mass selling across the board (and) we are pricing in a potential to go into another financial crisis.”
Investors were also unnerved by the absence of targeted stimulus measures and the lack of details on a public health response after Trump made no mention of widely expected payroll tax cuts.