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The U.S. stock market ended sharply lower Friday, in a broad selloff that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average fall almost 700 points. The Dow closed 1.6% lower, while the S&P 500 slumped 1.5% and the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.

The stock market fell sharply on Friday after a hotter-than-expected December jobs report had Wall Street wondering if the Federal Reserve is done cutting interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell about 700 points,