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UPDATED with closing numbers An escalation of the U.S.-China trade war Friday, with new tariffs eliciting harsh rhetoric from President Donald Trump, sent U.S. stocks tumbling as the media business kept a wary eye on the situation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average entered the final minutes of trading at 25,628.90…

On another rough day for Wall Street, major stock indices lost more ground, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq and S&P 500 all now below where they began 2018. The Dow skidded 2% to finish at 24,463.47, while the S&P swooned a shade less than 2% to settle at 2,641.88. The Nasdaq fell another 1.7% to…

UPDATED, 1:15 PM PT with closing prices: The stock market, which took a tumble Friday, went into complete free-fall this afternoon and recorded by far the biggest single-day point drop in the history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The Dow 30 dropped as much as 1,597 points as fears about inflation and rising…