U.S. markets ended sharply lower on Wednesday as the Middle East crisis re-escalated after President Donald Trump ramped up his threats against Iran following a recent exchange of attacks. Trump said, ‘We hit them hard yesterday, and we're going to hit them hard again today’. Meanwhile, traders took note of a Labor Department report showing that consumer prices in the U.S. increased in line with Streets' estimates in May. The Labor Department said its Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 0.5 percent in May after climbing by 0.6 percent in April, matching expectations. The annual rate of consumer price growth accelerated to 4.2 percent in May from 3.8 percent in April, also in line with estimates. The report further showed that core consumer prices, which exclude food and energy prices, edged up by 0.2 percent in May after rising by 0.4 percent in April. Street had expected core prices to increase by 0.3 percent.
On the sectoral front, airline stocks moved sharply lower amid a surge in crude oil prices, resulting in a 5.4 percent plunge in the NYSE Arca Airline Index. Substantial weakness was also visible among gold stocks, which declined along with the price of the precious metal, dragging the NYSE Arca Gold Bugs Index down by 5 percent.
Nasdaq declined 509.32 points or 1.98 percent to 25,169.501, Dow Jones Industrial Average decreased 953.33 points or 1.87 percent to 49,918.78 and S&P 500 was down 119.66 points or 1.62 percent to 7,266.99.
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