TECH STOCKS FALL: Here's what you need to know
Here's the scoreboard:
- Dow: 21,362.35, -12.21, (-0.06%)
- S&P 500: 2,433.36, -4.56, (-0.19%)
- Nasdaq: 6,168.12, -26.77, (-0.43%)
- Snap sank to its initial offering price of $17 for the first time. Many of the banks that underwrote the company's popular IPO have become bearish on the stock.
- Bitcoin had its biggest drop in more than two years. The cryptocurrency fell by as much as 12.9%, to $2,161 a coin, its lowest since the beginning of June.
- Nestle is thinking about selling its roughly $900 million-a-year US candy business. The world's largest packaged foods maker said on Thursday it would "explore strategic options," including a possible sale, amid a consumer shift towards healthier foods.
- Nike said it would cut 2% of its global workforce and discontinue a quarter of its shoe styles as competition mounts. Nike shares fell 3%.
- Alphabet fell after a rare downgrade. In a research note published Thursday, Canaccord said a lot of Alphabet's growth in mobile search and YouTube "will be hard to repeat."
- Initial jobless claims, which count people who applied for unemployment insurance for the first time, last week fell more than expected by 8,000 to 237,000, according to the Labor Department.
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