Glor and this is our western edition. Were going to begin tonight on wall street, where weve gotten used to big swings up and down. Today, however, was especially severe. The dow plunged at much as 700, hitting its low for the year before recovering some and closing with a loss of 458 points or nearly 2 . Part of the blame went to new concerns of a trade war after china responded to u. S. Tariffs, but that wasnt the main issue. Heres bianna golodryga. Reporter the drop in the market was driven by a selloff of the Tech Industry giants. President trump stepped up his attacks on amazon via twitter, repeating his view that the companys Business Practices hurts the u. S. Post office. Amazon losing more than 5 of its value. Facebook, which started the tech downtown turn last month amid criticism of how it handled users data lost 2. 7 today. Collectively, shares in the five tech giants known as fang facebook, apple, amazon, netflix, and alphabet lost about 324 billion of their value in the la
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