Stocks take it on the chin on Russia tension

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The final numbers are showing:

• Dow fell -503.53 points or -1.43% at 34738.07
• S&P fell -85.42 points or -1.90% at 4418.65
• Nasdaq NASDAQ The Nasdaq Stock Market or NASDAQ is an American stock exchange. It trails only the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in market capitalization and is part of a network of stock markets and options exchanges.Launched back in 1971, NASDAQ is the acronym for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations. Since then it is known simply as NASDAQ and has become one of the most influential exchanges worldwide.The NASDAQ was the world’s first electronic stock market, and has since ass The Nasdaq Stock Market or NASDAQ is an American stock exchange. It trails only the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in market capitalization and is part of a network of stock markets and options exchanges.Launched back in 1971, NASDAQ is the acronym for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations. Since then it is known simply as NASDAQ and has become one of the most influential exchanges worldwide.The NASDAQ was the world’s first electronic stock market, and has since ass Read this Term fell -394.48 points or -2.78% at 13791.16
• Russell 2000 fell -21.01 points or -1.02% at 2030.14

Some negative highlights for the day

• Nasdaq has it's worst 2-day performance since Sept 2020 (down -4.8%)
• S&P has its worst 2 day performance since October 2020 (-3.6%)
• Dow was down 621 points at the session low

For the week,

• Dow fell -1.00%
• S&P fell -1.88%
• Nasdaq fell -2.18%

The markets are certainly still on edge.

The S&P index tried for the 2nd week in a row to trade back above the 100 day MA earlier in the week, and failed. It is closing below the 200 day MA at 4452.13.

For the Nasdaq index, the highs this week, tested the high from last week at 14494.47.