A security guard watching China's stocks plunge. Photo: -/AFP via Getty Images
U.S. stocks are tanking in pre-market trading on the White House's threat to impose tariffs on another $200 billion of Chinese goods with the Dow down 376 points as of 7:23 a.m. Chinese stocks have already finished a terrible Tuesday with 1,023 stocks plunging 10% in one day, per Bloomberg.
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Protesters on Tuesday evening by the metal fence recently erected outside the White House. Photo: Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images
Largely peaceful protests over the death of George Floyd and other police-related killings of black people continued Tuesday night across the U.S. for the eighth consecutive day.
The latest: Protesters were out en masse after curfews were in force in areas including Washington, D.C., New York City, Los Angeles and Portland — one of the cities where there was a late-night flash-point between police and protesters.