“Wall Street fell again on Wednesday, as Europe considered additional lockdowns and U.S. cities such as Chicago and Newark, New Jersey, announced a new round of restrictive measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by over 700 points to fall below 27,000 in Wednesday’s morning session. The S&P 500 sank by 2.6 percent and the Nasdaq composite index tumbled by more than 2.9 percent. Covid-19 infections are spreading across the United States at the fastest rate since the start of the pandemic, according to the latest NBC News figures. The 71,000 new cases per day that the U.S. averaged over the past week was the most in any seven-day stretch since the crisis started” – NBC News.