Money | stocks Stocks Fall Sharply Amid Bank, Tech Selloff Facebook sinks 4% and Amazon 3% By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted Feb 8, 2016 3:10 PM CST Copied Traders Fred DeMarco, left, and Greg Mulligan confer on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Feb. 8, 2016. (Richard Drew) A steep sell-off in stocks got a little less bad by the end of the day, but it still left indexes down sharply for the second day in a row. Banks and technology shares fell sharply Monday. Facebook sank 4% and Amazon, which more than doubled last year, lost 3%. The losses brought the Nasdaq composite index down almost 20% from its record high last year. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 177, or 1.1%, to 16,027. It was down as much as 401 earlier. The Standard & Poor's 500 lost 26 points, or 1.4%, to 1,853. The Nasdaq sank 79 points, or 1.8%, to 4,283. Gold jumped 4%, and bond prices rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 1.75%. Read These Next Beyonce leaves national anthem unfinished. Musk says his new party is in business. A Texas man's disappearance is fodder for true-crime mania. Kerr County considered a flood warning system years ago. Report an error