Stocks: Dow sees worst drop in 2021 amid COVID-19 variant headline risk

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Yahoo Finance’s Brian Cheung weighs in on the Dow dropping more than 1,000 points on news of a new COVID-19 variant, plus what this means for the Fed and the pace of tapering.

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In This Story: Brian Cheung

Brian Cheung is an on-air reporter covering the Federal Reserve, economics, and banking for Yahoo Finance. He previously wrote for S&P Global Market Intelligence and, prior to that, worked at the Federal Reserve.

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