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Medical workers carry cold storage boxes containing injection material during a Phase 3 trial of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine.
Angel Garcia/Bloomberg
The stock market hasn’t been this spooked since Halloween.
The
Dow Jones Industrial Average
slipped 283.71 points, or 0.9%, this past week, to 30,814.26, while the
Nasdaq Composite
dropped 1.5%, to 12,998.50. The S&P 500 fell 1.5%, to 3768.25, its largest decline since the week ended Oct. 30, though back then it dropped 5.6%. Still, it was the
S&P 500’s
first weekly drop of more than 1% since then, a sign that investors, unflappable until now, really were taken aback by what they saw.