The NASDAQ 100 After Hours Indicator is down -24.74 to 6,969.55. The total After hours volume is currently 96,607,672 shares traded.The following are the most active stocks for the after hours session:
The NASDAQ 100 After Hours Indicator is down -24.74 to 6,969.55. The total After hours volume is currently 96,607,672 shares traded.The following are the most active stocks for the after hours session:
The best strategy we have to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus is self-isolation. Governments in China, Italy, Spain, France, and the state of California have already mandated lockdown or shelter-in-place policies to keep people from going out in public unnecessarily.
Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has added hand sanitizer, surface disinfecting wipes, and COVID-19 test kits to the list of ads it is banning on its platform. It's in addition to an existing ban on advertisements for surgical face masks.
Snap (NYSE: SNAP), the maker of the disappearing messages app Snapchat, is taking a beating in the markets, like most tech stocks, as the COVID-19 outbreak spreads across the globe.
Snap (NYSE: SNAP), the maker of the disappearing messages app Snapchat, is taking a beating in the markets, like most tech stocks, as the COVID-19 outbreak spreads across the globe.
Snap's (NYSE: SNAP) Snapchat is one of the top social media platforms for U.S. teens. According to Piper Jaffray's fall survey of teen interests, 81% of teens regularly use the app, while Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) Instagram ranked first with an 85% share.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc, numerous companies have stepped up to assist their employees and customers whose lives have been disrupted by the outbreak.
Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Twitch is still the largest video game streaming platform in the world, but Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Mixer is quickly gaining ground, according to Streamlabs and Newzoo's fourth-quarter numbers.
Costco (NASDAQ: COST) members love its food court. Each warehouse has one, offering hot dogs, pizza, sandwiches, churros, ice cream, and a handful of other things all at very low prices.
Chipotle (NYSE: CMG) has been aggressive in adapting its business to the current coronavirus-created reality. It has added delivery options and moved to a pickup/delivery model only.
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares Russell 1000 ETF (Symbol: IWB) where we have detected an approximate $270.9 million dollar inflow -- that's a 1.7% increase week over week
In an escalation of its efforts to keep coronavirus misinformation off its platform, Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) has expanded the content that will be banned.
Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) Instagram is rolling out a new revenue share model for its IGTV video feature. IGTV is Instagram's long-form video product that is designed to be somewhat similar to Alphabet's YouTube.
If you have $500 to invest right now, then I recommend you invest it in the stock market. That may be shocking to read, considering as of this writing, the S&P 500 is down 28% since this year began -- and still falling fast. But as scary as it is, the stock market has fallen
What happened
Shares of mega-technology stocks Alphabet, Microsoft, and Facebook slumped on Wednesday as the stock market continued to convulse due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. At 2:50 p.m. EDT, the S&P 500 index was down about 8.7%.
The federal government wants Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Alphabet's Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), and other tech giants to use the geolocation data they collect from smartphones to track the coronavirus outbreak, including potentially whether people are keeping an appropria