Stocks Fall Again, Handing Wall Street Another Losing Week

Stocks Fall Again, Handing Wall Street Another Losing Week
Trader John Santiago (L) and specialist Patrick King work on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 18, 2022. Allie Joseph/New York Stock Exchange via AP
The Associated Press
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Stocks capped a week of volatile trading on Wall Street with a broad sell-off Friday that left the major indexes with their second straight weekly loss.

The selling lost some momentum into the afternoon, but the intensified again in the final hour of trading. The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average each fell 0.7 percent. The Nasdaq composite bore the brunt of the selling, however, shedding 1.2 percent.