Dow drops 100 pts on N.Korea missile test

Reuters 

- U.S. opened sharply lower on Tuesday, with the Dow losing more than 100 points, as North Korea's missile test over escalated tensions with the United States, and President Donald Trump warned that "all options are on the table".

The Industrial Average fell 123.16 points, or 0.56 percent, to 21,685.24. The S&P 500 lost 15.85 points, or 0.648463 percent, to 2,428.39.

The Nasdaq Composite dropped 53.68 points, or 0.85 percent, to 6,229.34.

(Reporting by Sruthi Shankar in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)

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First Published: Tue, August 29 2017. 19:09 IST