Dow leads US indexes in rebound from breathtaking drops

Published February 6, 2018 3:12pm ET



The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 2.3 percent on Tuesday, snapping a two-day losing streak and leading gains by the major U.S. indexes.

The Dow’s increase of 567 points erases most of Friday’s losses but doesn’t touch the index’s 1,175-point drop on Monday, the largest decline in its history by that measure. On a percentage basis, slides in the panic of 1929 and the Black Monday crash of 1987 were considerably larger.

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