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Stocks sink after Trump Jr. tweets Russia bombshell

Joe Ciolli   

Stocks sink after Trump Jr. tweets Russia bombshell
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Donald Trump Jr.

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Global markets were rocked by Donald Trump Jr.'s shocking decision to release the full email correspondence between himself and a music publicist who arranged a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a woman who is identified as a "Russian government attorney."

The S&P 500 dropped as much as 0.5% on the news after trading little changed for most of the morning. The Dow slipped 0.4% as of 11:34 a.m. ET, while the more tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite lost just 0.1%.

In currency markets, the Russian ruble slid as much as 1.3% versus the US dollar.

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