The Dow fell 377.49 points, or 0.93%, to 40,287.53, the S&P 500 lost 39.59 points, or 0.71%, to 5,505 and the Nasdaq dropped 144.28 points, or 0.81%, to 17,726.94.
NEW YORK: US stocks extended their slump on Friday as lingering chaos related to a global technical outage caused by a software glitch added uncertainty to an already-anxious market.
The far-reaching tech outage disrupted operations across multiple industries including airlines, banking and healthcare after the glitch in cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike's software caused Microsoft's Windows operating system to crash.
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