US Stocks Market today: Wall Street slides as Donald Trump’s Iran deadline rattles markets; oil surges | Business

File photo (Picture credit: AP) US stocks fell on Tuesday as investors turned cautious ahead of President Donald Trump’s deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with markets on edge over whether the conflict in Middle East could intensify further.Wall Street’s three main indexes were in the red in early trade, dragged lower by technology stocks, while oil prices jumped sharply as fears of wider disruption to crude supplies grew.At 10:08 am ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 408.87 points, or 0.88 per cent, at 46,261.01, the S&P 500 had fallen 66.46 points, or 0.99 per cent, to 6,546.61, and the Nasdaq Composite was lower by 326.15 points, or 1.45 per cent, at 21,677.16. Markets track war rhetoric ahead of Trump’s deadline The sell-off came as investors closely watched

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