NEW YORK - U.S. equity markets tumbled Friday after a dismal March jobs report showed the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S.
economy harder than expected. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 361 points, or 1.69 percent, as unemployment surged to a level near the worst of the Trump era.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite dropped about 1.5 percent each. For the week, stocks fell across the board as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases crossed 1 million globally.
The Dow fell 2.7 percent while the S&P lost 2.1 percent and the Nasdaq slid 1.7 percent. RELATED: CoronavirusNOW.com, FOX launches national hub for COVID-19 news and updates The Labor Department said on Friday that the U.S.
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