Stocks in the United States had a wild day of trading as worries about economic growth and the continued slump in oil prices weighed on investors.
Markets had been steadily falling all day on Wednesday but staged a turnaround in the last hour of the trading day. At the close of trading, the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index was down about 1 percent, after being off as much as 3.7 percent.
The Dow Jones industrial average, which had been down more than 500 points earlier in the day, fell about 250 points, or 1.5 percent. The tech-heavy Nasdaq was nearly unchanged.
