Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 20, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) NEW YORK - U.S.
equity markets opened lower Tuesday and were trending toward their worst three-month stretch in years as the final day of the quarter gets underway.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 129 points, or 0.52 percent in the opening minutes of trading while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.55 percent and 0.59 percent, respectively. RELATED: CoronavirusNOW.com, FOX launches national hub for COVID-19 news and updates The Dow, which through Monday had fallen almost 22 percent this year, was on track for its biggest quarterly decline since 1987.