The S&P 500 slipped below its record peak above 2,000 overnight as the Ukraine crisis weighed on markets globally.
Yesterday President Putin ordered more Russian troops to enter Ukraine, causing nervous investors to switch money out of equities and into safe havens such as US government bonds. The move ended the S&P 500's three-day winning run, knocking it back 0.2% to close at 1,996. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was also down 0.3% at 17,079. The falls came despite yesterday's US GDP figure which saw the world's largest economy report GDP growth of 4.2% in the second quarter of 2014, revised up from 4% and better than previously expected by analysts. Russia's latest actions in Ukraine ha...
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