Market Breaks As Tech Tumbles After G-20 Comments

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Update: As Nasdaq accelerated lower, the market - as it tends to do - broke...

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Market un-breaks and Nasdaq resumes slide...

An absence of dip-buyers has prompted a 6.5% plunge in Facebook...

and the biggest drop in FANG stocks since Feb 8th as Bloomberg reports the G-20's "digital tax" issue will impact Google, Amazon, and others...

Bloomberg reports that digital taxation would impact companies such as Amazon, Google, Apple and others, an official at the G-20 meetings in Buenos Aires who is familiar with the discussions says, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

As one would imagine, U.S. strongly opposes any measures specifically targeting digital companies or impeding growth in the digital sector, a U.S. Treasury Department official said last week, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

FANG is fubar but then there is NFLX +65% YTD!!

And Nasdaq is getting crushed...

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【23:27】美股跌幅進一步擴大，三大指數跌逾1%。道指目前報24,676點，跌269點或1.08%；標指報2,720點，跌31點或1.14%；納指重災跌1.76%，目前報7,350點，跌131點。Facebook最新跌6.40%。

港股期指夜市報31,305點，跌88點，低水209點。
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【22:01】Facebook外洩用戶資料醜聞，加上議息臨近，觸發美股下挫，道指早段曾跌逾200點。港股期指夜市報31,391點，跌2點，低水123點。

道指現報24,769點，跌177點或0.71%；標指報2,734點，跌17點或0.63%；納指報7,416點，跌65點或0.88%。

Facebook股價仍跌約5%，FB上周五承認，一家曾在2016年幫助特朗普贏得美國總統大選的名為Cambridge Analytica的數據分析公司違規獲得了5000萬Facebook用戶的信息，這起事件可能成為史上最大規模的信息洩露案之一。

與此同時，即將到來的美聯儲議息會議也令部分投資者遠離市場，市場普遍預計美聯儲將在周三加息，而更高的利息會讓風險資產的吸引力減弱。

歐洲貨幣大反擊，美匯指數跌至90邊緣，跌0.20%。歐盟和英國就脫歐過渡期條款達成協議，英鎊曾大漲1%，現升0.80%至1.4055。

歐元兌美元升0.22%至1.2316，歐元同時受到有報道指歐洲央行討論焦點已經轉向利率路徑，認同市場對2019年二季度首次加息的預期。

英國退歐事務部長戴維斯表示，過渡期協議達成之後，商業獲得了確定性，現在比以往任何時候都更加接近好的脫歐協議。

歐股全線向下，英股跌1.22%；德股跌0.88%；法股跌0.52%。