According to the agency, investors are monitoring the development of the situation in the US banking sector and are revising forecasts regarding further actions of the Federal Reserve System.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.7% in the first minutes of trading, while the Standard & Poor's 500 dropped 1%.
Earlier, US President Joe Biden, against the background of the closure of two large banks in the country, promised the Americans that the management of financial institutions that went bankrupt would be fired.
He also assured citizens that American taxpayers will not suffer losses due to the situation around bankrupt banks.