Wall Street Knocked Lower by Ukraine Tensions, Boeing Crash

Wall Street Knocked Lower by Ukraine Tensions, Boeing Crash
View of the U.S. flag as a trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, on March 21, 2022. Brendan McDermid/Reuters
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Wall Street’s main indexes fell in choppy trade on Monday, as rising tensions over the Russia-Ukraine conflict weighed on megacap stocks and Boeing shares fell after a 737-800 jet crashed in China.

Russia’s foreign ministry said it had summoned U.S. Ambassador John Sullivan to tell him that remarks by President Joe Biden about his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had pushed bilateral ties to the brink of collapse.