Stock futures tumbled Thursday as fears mount that the deadly coronavirus could be spreading to the U.S. as the number of worldwide cases top 81,000.
Heading into Thursday, both averages were teetering on the brink of a correction, generally defined as a decline of 10% from a recent high. The Dow Jones industrial average is off 8.8% from its Feb. 12 record while the S&P 500 index was just under 8% off its all-time high reached Feb. 19.
President Donald Trump announced late Thursday the U.S. was stepping up its efforts to combat the virus outbreak. Shortly after Trump spoke, the government announced that another person in the U.S. was infected — someone in California who appears not to have the usual risk factors of having traveled abroad or being exposed to another patient.
“The efforts by Trump to calm the markets are being overshadowed by the news from the CDC of a possible transmission of the virus in the U.S.,” Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities, says in a note. “We continue to recommend staying cautious.”
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