U.S. stocks slide, dollar drops as Trump optimism wanes

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street stocks fell nearly 1 percent and the U.S. dollar dropped to a five-week low on Thursday after President-elect Donald Trump's eagerly awaited news briefing the previous day ignored his fiscal policies, which are expected to boost the economy. Instead, Trump remarked on a broad range of topics such as the Mexican wall, allegations of Russian hacking and his business interests but left out what investors wanted to hear about - fiscal spen