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Tuesday, Jun 03, 2025

Nasdaq sheds 4% as worst tech selloff since 2020 tanks US stocks

Nasdaq sheds 4% as worst tech selloff since 2020 tanks US stocks

Facebook owner Meta Platforms suffered a historic drop that wiped more than $250bn from its value.

The worst selloff in technology shares since fall 2020 sent U.S. equity indexes reeling, halting a four-day rebound.

The Nasdaq 100 shed 4.2% and the S&P 500 fell 2.4% as Facebook-owner Meta Platforms Inc. suffered a historic rout that wiped more than $250 billion from its value.

The declines came as investors also digested concerns about persistently high inflation from the European Central Bank with hawkish comments from Christine Lagarde. The euro spiked higher along with European bond yields. Meanwhile U.S. Treasuries followed the euro zone lower and the dollar fell.

“We got hit with a one-two punch today with the big drop in Facebook and the surprising news that the ECB has become more hawkish,” said Matt Maley, chief market strategist for Miller Tabak + Co. “The stock market had rallied in the afternoon each of the last four days, so traders were hoping that could bail us out again. When the rally didn’t materialize, traders lost a lot of confidence.”

Weak numbers from U.S. tech giants including Spotify Technology SA jolted investors who had bet a strong earnings season would keep equities attractive and counter some of their lingering worries including tighter monetary policy. Markets have swung sharply and stocks are nursing losses this year as officials pare stimulus to curb inflation.


In Europe, the Bank of England hiked its key rate and signaled it would start running down bond holdings. Meanwhile, the ECB held its interest rates and said net buying under its emergency support program will end in March.

Lagarde said inflation would remain elevated for longer but the bank was getting “much closer” to its inflation target. Germany’s two-year yield rose to a 2015 high. The Stoxx Europe 600 fell below its 100-day moving average.

“As markets focus closely on large, developed-market monetary policy stances — and investor sentiment around the globe shifts — economic activity data releases will be key,” said Marilyn Watson, head of global fundamental fixed income strategy at BlackRock.

Growth in the U.S. services sector pulled back in January to the slowest pace in nearly a year. Meanwhile, U.S. initial jobless claims fell more than expected last week to 238,000 ahead of data on payrolls Friday.

“Tomorrow’s jobs report is a reminder that expectations for Fed policy are the key influence on this market right now, and if economic data, especially inflation data, comes in ‘too hot’ then that will rekindle hawkish Fed concerns like in January, and we would expect at least a partial return of the January volatility,” wrote Tom Essaye, a former Merrill Lynch trader who founded “The Sevens Report” newsletter. “Bottom line, Fed policy still very much matters to this market.”

What to watch this week:


*  U.S. payrolls report for January, Friday

*  Winter Olympics kick off in China, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin due to attend opening ceremony, Friday

Some of the main moves in markets:

Stocks


*  The S&P 500 fell 2.4% as of 4:01 p.m. New York time

*  The Nasdaq 100 fell 4.2%

*  The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.5%

*  The MSCI World index fell 1.8%

Currencies


*  The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index fell 0.3%

*  The euro rose 1.1% to $1.1431

*  The British pound rose 0.1% to $1.3595

*  The Japanese yen fell 0.4% to 114.94 per dollar

Bonds


*  The yield on 10-year Treasuries advanced five basis points to 1.83%

*  Germany’s 10-year yield advanced 10 basis points to 0.14%

*  Britain’s 10-year yield advanced 11 basis points to 1.37%

Commodities


*  West Texas Intermediate crude rose 2.1% to $90.11 a barrel

*  Gold futures fell 0.2% to $1,806.80 an ounce

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