Baku - APA-Economics. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 137.55 points, or 0.83 per cent, to 16,374.31, The West Australian reported.
The broad-based S&P 500 fell 12.25 points, or 0.65 per cent, to 1,872.83, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index lost 28.92 points, or 0.7 per cent, to 4,096.89.
London's FTSE 100 index of top companies dropped 0.62 per cent to close at 6,802 points, Frankfurt's DAX 30 slid 0.21 per cent to 9,639.08 points, and the CAC 40 in Paris lost 0.39 per cent to 4,452.35 points.