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Wall Street took another hit Monday as investors unloaded tech stocks amid fresh worries about tariffs.

After starting the day up as much as 352 points, the Dow Jones industrial average dipped as low as 566 points into negative territory on a Bloomberg report that said President Trump was preparing to tariff all remaining Chinese imports if next month’s talks with President Xi Jinping don’t go well.

“This is more aggressive than the markets were likely expecting, given that many felt the next step would be an escalation of tariffs to 25 percent, up from 10 percent, on the $250 billion already announced,” Mona Mahajan, US investment strategist at Allianz Global Investors, told The Post.

“The trade war remains an overhang on the markets, and the news today signals further escalation rather than de-escalation,” she added.

Panic cooled somewhat in the last 15 minutes of trading as the Dow pared losses to end the day down 245.39 points, or 1 percent, at 24,442.92 while the S&P 500 shed 0.7 percent.

Amazon fell 6.3 percent Monday — continuing a sell-off that began Thursday when the company reported weaker-than-expected third quarter revenues and hinted at a lackluster holiday season. The stock has given up roughly $250 billion in market value since it briefly joined Apple in the $1 trillion club in September.

Other members of the so-called FAANG group also sold off. Apple shed 1.9 percent while Facebook gave up 2.3 percent. Netflix and Google parent Alphabet were down 5 percent and 4.8 percent, respectively.

Boeing, which saw its stock gain early Monday, became the leading laggard on the Dow, closing down 6.6 percent and suffering its worst day since February 2016.

Analysts aren’t seeing much hope for a rebound until buying volume greatly outpaces selling volume.

“Downside momentum is so strong that it does not take much to encourage more selling,” Bruce Bittles, chief investment strategist at RW Baird, told The Post.

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