China-Singapore Jingwei Client, March 13th, US stocks closed on Thursday, Eastern Time, and the three major stock indexes plummeted again. The S & P 500 index fell below the 2500 mark, and the decline in early trading expanded to 7%, triggering the third meltdown in the history of U.S. stocks and the second blowout this week. The Dow closed down about 2352 points, its largest drop in history, and its largest one-day drop since October 1987.

Timeshare chart of the three major US stock indexes. Source: Wind

As of the close, the Dow fell 2235.60 points, or 9.99%, to 21,200.62 points; the Nasdaq fell 750.25 points, or 9.43%, to 7208.80 points; the S & P 500 index fell 2609.74 points, or 9.51%, to 2,480.64 points.

In terms of sub-sectors, large US technology stocks were lower across the board. Apple fell 9.88%, Amazon fell 7.92%, Nai Fei fell 9.91%, Google fell 8.2%, Facebook fell 9.3%, and Microsoft fell 9.48%.

Popular Chinese stocks fell across the board, Alibaba fell 6.89%, Jingdong fell 7.87%, Baidu fell 8.55%; Fragrant Foods fell 36.71%, Mushroom Street fell 33.33%, Meimei Securities fell 31.13%, Weibo fell 7.97%, Pinduoduo Fell 6.42%, Weilai Automobile fell 5.72%, NetEase fell 7.88%.

On the 12th, the global stock market was now blown out. According to incomplete statistics, in addition to the US stocks, the Brazilian stock market, the Canadian stock market, the Thai stock market, the Philippine stock market, the Pakistani stock market, the Korean stock market, the Indonesian stock market, and the Mexican stock market had "fuse".

As for European stocks, European stocks closed down. The Frankfurt stock market ’s DAX index on the 12th fell 1277.55 points, a drop of 12.24%, to close at 9161.13 points; the Paris stock market CAC40 index closed at 4,04.26 points on the 12th, down 565.99 points, or a 12.28% drop from the previous trading day; The Financial Times' average price index of 100 stocks closed at 5237.48 points on the 12th, down 639.04 points from the previous trading day, or a 10.87% decrease.

Oil prices in New York fell, and New York light crude futures for April delivery fell by $ 1.48 to close at $ 31.50 per barrel.

International gold prices fell. The most active April gold futures price on the New York Mercantile Exchange's gold futures market fell by $ 52 from the previous trading day to close at $ 1590.3 per ounce, a drop of 3.17%.

The US dollar index rose on the 12th. As of late trading in the New York currency market, the US dollar index, which measures the dollar against six major currencies, rose 1.00% to 97.4767. (Zhongxin Jingwei APP)