Wall Street stocks tumbled early Tuesday, joining a global sell-off as markets worry about a long-running Middle East war that boosts oil prices and inflation.
All three major indices were firmly lower a few minutes into trading, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 1.7 percent to 48,066.36.
The broad-based S&P 500 shed 1.7 percent to 6,767.35, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index slid 2.0 percent to 22,305.35.
