Slump in Chinese manufacturing weighs on markets

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Renewed concerns about economic growth abroad&comma; specifically Europe and China&comma; weighed on markets on Tuesday&comma; causing stocks to erase all of the previous day&&num;8217&semi;s gains&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Dow Jones industrial average lost 140&period;25 points&comma; or 0&period;8&percnt;&comma; to 17&comma;750&period;91&period; The Standard &&num;038&semi; Poor&&num;8217&semi;s 500 index lost 18&period;06 points&comma; or 0&period;9&percnt;&comma; to 2&comma;063&period;37 and the Nasdaq composite lost 54&period;37 points&comma; or 1&period;1&percnt;&comma; to 4&comma;763&period;22&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Stocks started lower and remained there most of the day&comma; with the Dow moving down 100 to 200 points throughout the day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The selling started in Asia&comma; when a Chinese purchasing managers&&num;8217&semi; index for manufacturing declined to 49&period;4 last month from 49&period;7 in March&period; A number below 50 indicates that manufacturing is contracting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Worries about China were largely responsible for a bout of turmoil in global financial markets early this year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Those concerns were compounded after European officials trimmed their economic growth forecasts for the 19 countries that share the euro&comma; citing an unpredictable global outlook marked by political uncertainty and weakness in emerging markets&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Although Europe&&num;8217&semi;s economy was surprisingly strong in the first quarter&comma; when it regained the size it was before the 2008 financial crisis&comma; EU commissioner Pierre Moscovici said the recovery &&num;8220&semi;remains uneven&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s a reminder that the global economy is not doing particularly well&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Ian Winer&comma; director of equity trading at Wedbush Securities&period; Winer noted the sell-off in energy and metals&comma; most notably oil and copper&comma; which are economically sensitive commodities that would fall if Chinese factories were to idle&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The global economic worries caused more losses for two of the hardest-hit sectors in the US stock market this year&colon; energy and banks&period; Energy companies in the S&&num;038&semi;P 500 slumped 2&period;2&percnt;&comma; the most in the index&comma; and financial stocks fell 1&period;3&percnt;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Chevron dropped 1&period;99 dollars&comma; or 2&percnt;&comma; 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