US stocks dropped sharply on Tuesday with shares in technology groups including Elon Musk’s Tesla selling off as investors continued fretting over President Donald Trump’s economic and trade policies.
The blue-chip S&P 500 ended the session 1.1 per cent lower, with nine of the index’s 11 sectors in negative territory and consumer cyclicals, which tend to fall during times of rising worries over the economy, posting some of the steepest declines.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.7 per cent, erasing Monday’s rally. Tesla slumped 5.3 per cent — extending a recent decline that has brought it down by half from its December peak — and Nvidia lost 3.4 per.