Apple, Macys, Moderna – Reuters

The Dow dragged Wall Street’s main indexes lower on Friday, with travel, bank and commodity-linked stocks bearing the brunt of a selloff triggered by the discovery of a new and possibly vaccine-resistant coronavirus variant.

At 10:34 ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) was down 2.40% at 34,944.64. The S&P 500 (.SPX) was down 2.03% at 4,606.2 and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC)was down 1.52% at 15,604.316.

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The 11 major S&P 500 sectors:

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