Facebook Stock in Freefall – Loses 23% in Half an Hour

People say Bitcoin is volatile.

Bitcoin never lost 23% in half an hour.

RT:

Shares of Facebook’s parent company Meta went into a nosedive after the markets closed on Wednesday, following an underwhelming quarterly report, the first since CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the name change.

The stock stood strong at $323 a share when the markets closed at 4 pm EST, but collapsed to $249 just half an hour later, for a loss of almost 23%. In just the first eleven minutes of after-hours trading, $16 billion in Meta’s market cap had been wiped out. 

What triggered the sell-off was Meta’s quarterly report showing lower revenue, earnings per share, and the numbers of daily and monthly active users than expected by investors.

Whereas the investors expected around $30.15 billion, Facebook’s figures showed $27-$29 billion, CNBC reported, citing a Refinitiv survey of market analysts. According to the same source, earnings per share came in at $3.67, short of the expected $3.84.

Okay.

Well, it’s nice to gloat and so on.

But none of these mega corporations are ever going away, sort of societal collapse. They are entrenched, effectively de facto branches of the government.

I feel like every time there is some kind of seemingly good news, I’m like “let me tell you why this isn’t actually good news.”

Look, I just try to keep it real.

I support the truckers, I support Facebook stock collapsing – I’m just telling you, at the end of the day, the things that really matter are probably going to be massive screwups on the geopolitical stage.