Baku. Musa Ahmadov - APA-Economics. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished down 264.26 points (1.54 per cent) at 16,945.80, Sydney Morning Herald reported.
The broad-based S&P 500 lost 32.31 (1.62 per cent) at 1,965.99, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite tumbled 88.47 (1.94 per cent) to 4,466.75.
London's benchmark FTSE 100 ended 0.99 per cent down at 6,639.71 points, while Paris's CAC 40 slid 1.32 per cent to 4,355.28 points and Frankfurt's DAX lost 1.57 per cent to 9,510.01 points.