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David Gura

Stock markets drop as Wall Street takes a gloomy view of the economy

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on September 21, 2022 in New York City. Stocks dropped in the final hour of trading after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point in an attempt to continue to tame inflation. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Stock markets continued their weeklong plunge on Friday, with all three major indices falling more than 1%, as investors who are losing faith in the global economy rushed for the exits.

Wall Street has been developing a gloomy view of the economy's future, where a recession seems more likely, as it digests the Federal Reserve's warnings about what it will take to cool the country's overheated inflation.

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