Stock grief

Stocks fell, with the Dow Jones industrial average down 3 percent to 13,413.51, sending Europe’s benchmark index down the most in two months.

Home sales

New single-family home sales fell by 0.3 percent last month from July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 373,000, the Commerce Department said.

All Wet

Wet Seal said Institutional Shareholder Services and Egan-Jones Proxy Services recommend that its shareholders reject hedge-fund manager Clinton Group’s bid to replace most of the teen retailer’s board.

Trump deal

The Donald hashed out an agreement with Bank of America and closed yesterday on the Kluge estate mansion in Charlottesville, Va., for $6.2 million, plus $1.7 million for equipment.

Hard-vard

Harvard University, lost 0.05 percent on its investments in the year ended June 30, trailing the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and peers like the University of Pennsylvania and MIT.