Stocks sink on first day of 2016 on China, Mideast worries

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

NEW YORK -- The new year got off to an inauspicious start on Wall Street as stocks tumbled Monday in a global sell-off triggered by new fears of a slowdown in China and rising tensions in the Middle East.

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