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Wall Street slips as car sales dent economic hopes

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Reuters NEW YORK

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell Tuesday on Wall Street, with each of the major indexes notching their largest daily percentage loss in about a month as economic data and weaker-than-expected auto sales spurred growth concerns.

The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> fell 90.74 points, or 0.49 percent, to 18,313.77, the S&P 500 <.SPX> lost 13.81 points, or 0.64 percent, to 2,157.03 and the Nasdaq Composite <.IXIC> dropped 46.46 points, or 0.9 percent, to 5,137.73.

(Reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by Dan Grebler)

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First Published: Aug 03 2016 | 1:42 AM IST

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