Another rout hit Wall Street, leaving the market with its worst week in 18 months, after a jobs report billed as the most important of the year came in weak enough to keep worries high about the economy.

The S&P 500 fell 1.7% Friday.

Broadcom, Nvidia and other tech companies led the market lower as worries continue that prices soared too high in the boom around artificial intelligence.

That dragged the Nasdaq composite down 2.6%.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1%. 

Treasury yields tumbled, recovered and then fell again after the jobs report showed employers hired fewer workers in August than expected.

In stock markets abroad, indexes fell across much of Europe and Asia. Trading was halted in Hong Kong because of a typhoon.

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