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Wall Street drops as pharma, financials drag

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stock prices fell on Tuesday, as weakness in drug and financial shares sent the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average to their first consecutive sessions of declines in more than a month.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average <.DJI> fell 31.23 points, or 0.15 percent, to 20,923.11, the S&P 500 <.SPX> lost 7.08 points, or 0.30 percent, to 2,368.23 and the Nasdaq Composite <.IXIC> dropped 15.25 points, or 0.26 percent, to 5,833.93.

(Reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by Nick Zieminski)

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First Published: Mar 08 2017 | 2:35 AM IST

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