bercetche who joins us live from london. good morning. nasdaq futures fell in early trading this morning as investors digested a fresh batch of corporate earnings. give us the latest. well, the moves so far have been pretty positive for wall street, for the week as a whole, the nasdaq is up more than 5 percentage points, yesterday all of the three majors ended up in positive territory, and the dow up half a percentage point and the s&p up one percentage point and the nasdaq up 1.4%. but as you mentioned that changed in after-hours trading mostly because of the volatile snapchat earnings, they were disappointing for america and they indicated they were going to be slowing down their hiring for the rest of the year. so on the back of that, snapchat shares were down 5 percentage points and then they dragged down in the sector as well. and name like meta, alphabet, down a percentage point. and that is the reason that nasdaq is looking to ep up in negative territory today.
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