Stocks sink, bonds soar on virus fears

Stocks slumped again on Wall Street Tuesday, piling on losses a day after the market's biggest drop in two years as fears spread that the growing virus outbreak will put the brakes on the global economy. Nervous investors snapped up low-risk U.S. government bonds, sending the yield on the 10-year Treasury note to a record low. The benchmark S&P 500 has lost 7.6 percent over the last four days, it's worst such stretch since the end of 2018. Tuesday also marked the first back-to-back 3 percent losses for the index since the summer of 2015. The latest wave of selling came as more companies, including United Airlines and Mastercard, warned that...