It was another miserable day for global financial markets as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 103.81 points to 31,730.30 while the FTSE in London was off 1.6% to 7,233.34.
The Nasdaq was up, however, by 6.73 points to 11,370.96, and so was Sinclair Broadcast Group, which finished Thursday as a top performer in the media sector.