Stock market today: Dow tumbles 800 points with Nasdaq, S&P 500 hammered as investors pare rate cut bets

US stocks fell sharply on Thursday, led by a decline in tech stocks as the end of the longest-ever US government shutdown was met by concern from investors that the Federal Reserve's plans for a December rate cut might be in doubt. When the closing bell rang on Wall Street, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) suffered the sharpest losses, falling 2.3%. The benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell 1.6%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) dropped 1.6%, or 797 points, to backtrack on its second record c ...