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Dow tumbles almost 600 points

WASHINGTON — Wall Street ended another volatile week with a Friday sell-off that sent the Dow Jones Industrials Average down 572 points, or 2.3 percent, by the closing bell, one of the Dow’s largest one-day point losses on record.

The markets faced renewed concern about a pending trade war with China, and reacted to a disappointing jobs report that showed a fewer-than-expected 103,000 jobs were created in March.

Jeff Clabaugh

Jeff Clabaugh has spent 20 years covering the Washington region's economy and financial markets for ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ as part of a partnership with the Washington Business Journal, and officially joined the ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ newsroom staff in January 2016.

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