Technology and other fast-growing companies tumbled Friday, extending a painful stock-market rout that threatens to pull the Nasdaq Composite Index into bear-market territory. A bevy of concerns, from the Federal Reserve’s pace of interest-rate increases to the health of the U.S. economy and a looming government shutdown, continue to hang over the stock market, leading investors to pare back their riskier investments in an effort to preserve their capital.

Source: Wall Street Journal December 21, 2018 06:18 UTC