Los Angeles county reports its first Omicron COVID-19 case

The report of a case in California triggered the huge equity slide Wednesday US time into the cash market close.

Now Los Angeles county reporting its first case.

Earlier:

• New York state has found 5 cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant

This sent ES futures lower on Globex.

And since then:

• Hawaii confirms one case of COVID-19 Omicron variant