Wall Street ended mixed on Friday after a volatile session that saw Tesla slump and other growth stocks also lose ground.
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq logged their seventh straight week of losses, their longest losing streak since the end of the dotcom bubble in 2001.
The Dow suffered its eighth consecutive weekly decline, its longest since 1932 during the Great Depression.
Worries about surging inflation and rising interest rates have pummeled the U.S. stock market this year, with danger signals from Walmart Inc. and other retailers this week adding to fears about the economy.
The S&P 500 spent most of the session in negative territory and at one point was down just over 20 percent from its Jan. 3 record high close before ending down 18 percent from that level and flat for the day….