On 18 March , the NASDAQ Composite fell by less than 6 % .
On 18 March , Asia-Pacific and European stock markets closed down , while the NASDAQ Composite and the S & P 500 both fell by 5 % , and the Dow Jones Industrial Average by more than 6 % and below 20,000 points for the first time since February 2017 ( with the trading curb activated for the fourth time within the course of a week ) .
2020 stock market crash