It all started in Asia.
Stocks fell 8.5% in Shanghai and 4.6% in Japan on Monday (Aug. 24). The global selloff then spread to Europe, where the Stoxx 600 was down roughly 4.5%.
In the United States, the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly fell more than 1,000 points at the open—the biggest intraday decline ever
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