Wall Street had a steep sell off Friday, thus sending major market indexes to their lowest levels in more than five years. A grim outlook from Sony helped trigger the selling, and the automaker Daimler added momentum to the drop.
The Dow Jones fell 312.30, or 3.59 percent, to 8,378.95.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 31.34, or 3.45 percent, to 876.77.
The Nasdaq composite index fell 51.88, or 3.23 percent, to 1,552.03.
Singapore's Straits Times Index (STI) plunged 143.39, or 8.3 percent, to 1,600.28.
The plummeting Dow Jones and S&P 500 futures indexes triggered for the sell-down.
