Wall Street stocks dropped Wednesday, joining a sea of red on global equity bourses after Fitch stripped the United States of its highest credit rating.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed almost 350 points, or 1.0 percent, to finish at 35,282.52.
The broad-based S&P 500 dropped 1.4 percent to 4,513.39, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index tumbled 2.2 percent to 13,973.45.