US Stocks Slide 2 Percent

According to Reuters, stocks on Wall Street are down about 2-percent on the day.
By the afternoon on Dec. 17th, losses for the top three indexes on the New York Stock Exchange continued throughout the day.
By noon, the top three markets were down about 1-percent each, but they did not recover from those morning losses.
On the day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down about 446-points, falling to 23,653.
The Nasdaq Composite lost about 137-points, while the S&P 500 is down about 48-points.