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Myles Udland January 6, 2015 It's ugly out there. Near 1:15 pm ET on Tuesday, stocks were near their worst levels of the day as oil was tumbling again. The Dow was down 214 points, the S&P 500 was down 25 points to fall back below 2,000, and the Nasdaq was down 77 points. All the major indexes were down more than 1.2%, with the Nasdaq down 1.6%. CNBC's Scott Wapner has said on-air on Tuesday that we are currently looking at the worst three-day drop in the S&P 500 to start a year ever. The major averages opened higher...

Joe WeisenthalOctober 10, 2014 The global market plunge continues. On Thursday we saw the Dow give up more than 300 points, and markets again awash in a sea of red. France is down 1.6%. German shares are down over 2%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell nearly 2%, while Japan lost just over 1%. US futures are all lower, by just under 1%.(snip)