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Joe Biden scored two quick and significant victories in the first results from Super Tuesday, winning the Democratic primaries in Virginia and North Carolina. Bernie Sanders won his home state of Vermont.

The U.S. stock-market rally has unraveled, with a period of historic gains coming to a screeching halt, as fear that the coronavirus epidemic may reach America rattles Wall Street.

However, the depth of the slide for stocks this week can perhaps best be illustrated by the severity of the weekly skid for the 124-year-old Dow Jones Industrial Average. DJIA, -4.42%, with stock markets relinquishing gains from earlier in the year on the back of uncertainty over the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak.

It’s a perennial villain, bad liquidity. Veteran traders have been warning that a breakdown in the stock market’s ease-of-use would one day have dire consequences for pricing. So how easy was it to do business Monday, during the worst sell-off in two years?

The Senate is taking the final votes on impeachment articles charging President Donald Trump with abuse of power and obstructing a U.S. House investigation of his pressure on Ukraine to investigate a political rival.

Chinese officials are hoping the U.S. will agree to some flexibility on pledges in their phase-one trade deal, people familiar with the situation said, as Beijing tries to contain a health crisis that threatens to slow domestic growth with repercussions around the world.

That’s the strategy that strategists at Bank of America Securities appears to be espousing for investors, amid swings in U.S. stock benchmarks that have become increasingly gut-wrenching in the aftermath of a coronavirus outbreak in China that appears to be giving bullish investors at least a momentary pause after a record-setting rally.

#Facebook growth is slowing, adding pressure to a company facing more-restrictive privacy regulations and continued scrutiny from global lawmakers and antitrust officials.

U.S. stocks were trading lower Thursday as investors parsed earnings from some Dow components, while eyeing China’s struggles to contain a potential viral outbreak.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has seen a spectacular rally in the past couple of months, with blue-chip benchmark at a new intraday again Thursday, with another psychological milestone 29,000 in sight.

#Tesla is as big as peak Ford Motor Co., with the Silicon Valley electric-car maker stock poised to hit another record on Tuesday.

Stocks are lurching toward fresh records to commence the first trading day in 2020, but that advance has raised some questions about the run-up in values for broad-market U.S. equity benchmarks.

U.S. stocks had been on a tear in December, putting themselves in the position to post once-in-a-generation annual gains