Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq sink, bitcoin plummets in downbeat start to December

US stocks sank on Monday while bitcoin's (BTC-USD) slump deepened, as Wall Street's strong late-November rebound looked set to hit a speed bump on the first trading day of December. The Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) and the S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell around 0.2%, paring earlier tech-led losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) slid around 0.5%, after the blue-chip benchmark led Wall Street indexes to a fifth day of gains on Friday. Nvidia (NVDA) stock fell 1% at the open before reversing course and gaining ...