After Breaking Records For Six Weeks, Stocks Dropped -2.3% Friday

Published Friday, November 26, 2021 at: 7:42 PM EST

The Standard & Poor’s 500 dropped 2.3% on Friday, its worst one-day loss since February. Only five trading days earlier, the S&P 500 had closed at a record high. Friday’s abrupt reversal occurred after a handful of nations, including the United States, reinstated travel restrictions on visitors coming from southern Africa, a precaution taken to prevent the spread of a new variant of Covid-19.  Whether the new variant is prevented by existing vaccines is not yet known. Friday’s loss followed a surge that began at the start of October in which the stock market soared for six weeks. The S&P 500 had...

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