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Dow Jones Stock Index Hit By Record Falls

When the bell rang to close the New York Stock Exchange, shares were down on Wall Street by 4.6%. It was the worst day on US markets in over six years.

When the bell rang to close the New York Stock Exchange, shares were down on Wall Street by 4.6%. It was the worst day on US markets in over six years. Gillian Tett of the Financial Times in New York gives us her take. A US court case involving two of the biggest technology companies developing self-driving cars is getting under way. The ride-sharing firm, Uber, is being sued by Waymo (owned by Google's parent company Alphabet), which alleges that a former employee took thousands of confidential files when he left the company. The 主播大秀's Dave Lee is outside the court in San Francisco. Also in the show, Ed Butler heads to the village in Sierra Leone that is hoping to profit from the sale of one of the largest diamonds ever found in west Africa.

All this and more discusses with our two guests throughout the show: the journalist and author, Diane Brady, in New York and Simon Littlewood, President of AC Growth Delivered, in Singapore.

(Photo: A trader at the New York Stock Exchange. Credit: Getty Images.)

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Tue 6 Feb 2018 01:06GMT

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