What Happened in Markets Today Stocks slid as U.S. rhetoric on the Middle East intensified. The S&P 500 index was off by 0.8%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 299 points. Trump called on ...

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks slumped on Tuesday under the weight of another jump for the price of oil. It was a return to form for financial markets after Wall Street’s worries about Israel’s fighting with ...

Shares of industrial and transportation companies fell amid weak U.S. economic data.