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Stock Market Today: Stocks' Momentum Stalls After Shocking Snap Earnings

The Nasdaq's impressive multi-day winning streak came to a screeching halt on Friday as a negative earnings reaction for social media stock Snap (SNAP, -39.1%) weighed on the broader tech sector.

The parent company of photo-sharing app Snapchat last night reported its weakest quarter ever for revenue growth (+13% year-over-year to $1.11 billion). SNAP also swung to a per-share loss of 2 cents from earnings of 10 cents per share in Q2 2021, while daily active users were up 18% to 347 million. All three metrics fell short of

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