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Dow drops 433 points as COVID-19 cases climb and Manchin sinks social spending bill

Matthew Fox   

Dow drops 433 points as COVID-19 cases climb and Manchin sinks social spending bill
  • US stocks fell on Monday amid rising COVID-19 cases and the spread of the Omicron variant.
  • Also weighing on stocks was Senator Joe Manchin's rejection of President Biden's spending bill.
  • Goldman Sachs estimates the rejection of Biden's spending bill will weaken the economy in 2022.

US stocks tumbled more than 1% on Monday amid rising COVID-19 cases and Senator Joe Manchin's rejection of President Biden's spending bill.

COVID-19 daily cases continue to rise, boosted by the spread of the more contagious Omicron variant. The seven-day average of US cases is hovering around 130,000. But that number $4 as the holiday travel season picks up.

"Cases might soar to 250,000 to 300,000, maybe 500,000 within a few weeks," Fundstrat's Tom Lee said in a Monday note to clients.

But while Omicron's surge seems inevitable in the US, $4 the US to institute a new set of lockdowns to combat the virus, rather counting on vaccines, new antiviral therapies, and social distancing and mask wearing.

Meanwhile, $4 plan means there is now little chance of passage for the social spending bill. That has the potential to hurt the economy, according to Goldman Sachs, $4 on Manchin's position.

Here's where US indexes stood at the 4:00 p.m. ET close on Monday:

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$4 oil dropped as much as 3.96% to $67.92 per barrel. $4, oil's international benchmark, fell as much as 3.43% to $71.00 per barrel.

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