New Delhi, March 11 -- The United States stock markets have crashed and how! What started as a slow pull back over the last week accelerated on March 10 (Monday) across all sectors and asset classes, with Wall Street heavily flocking to safe haven options. This came amid rising concerns over US President Donald Trump's "rash" policies on tariffs triggering a global trade war, and uncertainity in the US economy due to spending cuts and mass federal layoffs.

Across the board, tech stocks nosedived to their lowest since post-pandemic 2022, as per a Bloomberg report. It added that the Nasdaq Index slipped close to 4 per cent, cryptocurrencies fell, with Bitcoin touching its lowest since Donald Trump's November win, and investors fled corpora...