Finance
Tech stocks: FAANG flirting with biggest gain since January 2016
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Facebook on
Tuesday reported third-quarter results that weren’t as bad as
feared. -
Tech stocks in the FAANG basket all surged on
Wednesday. -
The FAANG stocks were among the hardest hit during the
stock-market selling in October. -
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Amazon,
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The most-popular tech stocks are flirting with their best day in
nearly three years as the market breathes a sigh of relief
following Facebook‘s third-quarter
results.
The social-media company on Tuesday
reported revenue that missed Wall Street
estimates, and said that user trends stalled. But, shares spiked
as investors were positioning for the worst.
Following Facebook’s report, the tech-heavy Nasdaq
composite jumped more than 2%,
in large part due to the big gains coming from the “FAANG”
basket, including Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and
Google-parent Alphabet. Meanwhile,
the “NYSE
FANG+ Index” — which tracks the performance of FAANG stocks
along with other frequently-traded technology names such as
Tesla, Twitter, Nvidia, Alibaba and Baidu — gained
2.65%.
Wednesday’s rally could mark the
biggest single-day gain by the FAANG basket
since
January 2016,
according to Bloomberg.
The tech giants have been among the hardest hit during the
brutal market sell-off in October. The Nasdaq Composite was down
12.2% this month before Wednesday, and the “NYSE FANG+ Index” tanked
13.5%.
Here is the scoreboard of how much FAANG stocks fared on
Wednesday:
- Netflix (NFLX):
+6.43% - Amazon (AMZN):
+4.33% - Google (GOOG):
+4.14% - Facebook (FB):
+3.58% - Apple (AAPL):
+2.76%
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