Original title: us stocks knew for a long time: Nasdaq posted its worst weekly performance since October. Buffett warned that the outlook for the bond market was bleak. Source: British Financial Information Investing.co

Yingwei Financial Investing.com-the Dow closed below 31000 on Friday, with the Nasdaq rising slightly, ending a week of volatility in US stocks against a backdrop of rising yields.

The Dow Jones Industrial average fell 469.64 points, or 1.50%, to 30932.37. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell 18.19 points, or 0.47 percent, to 3811.15. The Nasdaq composite index closed up 72.96 points, or 0.56%, at 13192.35. Throughout the week, the Dow is down 1.8%, the s & p is down 2.5% and the Nasdaq is down 4.9%. For the whole of February, the Dow was still up 3.2%, the s & p 2.6% and the Nasdaq 0.9%. As of 09:07 Beijing time, British Financial Information Investing.com US stock market showed that US S & P 500 index futures rose 0.77% to 3838.62 points, Dow Jones 30 index futures rose 0.66% to 31115.0 points, and NASDAQ 100 index futures rose 0.96% to 13035.12 points.

In terms of ETF, the S & P 500 Spdr ®NASDAQ:QQQ (NYSE:SPY) closed down 0.53%, Nasdaq 100 Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ) closed up 0.42%, gold SPDR ®Gold Shares (NYSE:GLD) closed down 2.42%, gold VanEck Vectors Gold Miners (NYSE:GDX) closed down 3.77%, Silver iShares Silver Trust (NYSE:SLV) closed down 2.91%, and US crude Oil Fund (NYSE:USO) closed down 2.73%. China Science and Technology ETF Invesco China Technology (NYSE:CQQQ) closed down 1.14%.

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The U.S. House of Representatives approved Biden's $1.9 trillion epidemic relief plan. The plan covers $1400 in stimulus checks, enhanced unemployment benefits and new funding for vaccines and testing.

Treasuries rebounded on Friday, with the yield on the 10-year Treasury note falling 11.5 basis points to 1.4049%.

In terms of economic data, the consumer confidence index of the University of Michigan in February was 76.8, better than expected, while the monthly rate of personal spending in the United States rebounded from-0.4% to 2.4% in January, the biggest increase in seven months.

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Game Station (NYSE:GME): bank of America Merrill Lynch reiterated its "lagging behind market" rating, with a target price of $10.

NYSE:HPQ (HPQ): JPMorgan Chase & Co upgraded HP to "overweight" from "neutral" and raised its target price to $35 from $28. Hewlett-Packard closed up 2.77% at $28.97.

L Brands Inc (NYSE:LB): Morgan Stanley raised the rating of L Brands to "overweight".

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The game station gave up the initial increase, closing down more than 6%.

NYSE:GME 's strong early rally faded, closing down 6.43 per cent. AMC cinema (NYSE:AMC) closed down 3.38%, NASDAQ:KOSS (GOOG) closed down 22.39%, and BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) closed down 5.01%.

Most of the tech giants rose, with Amazon.Com Inc, Microsoft Corp and Facebook Inc up more than 1%.

Most tech giants rose, with Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) up 0.22%, Amazon.Com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) up 1.17%, Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) up 1.48%, Alphabet Inc-CL C (NASDAQ:GOOG) up 0.27%. NASDAQ:FB (NASDAQ:FB) rose 1.15%, and Netflix Inc (NASDAQ:NFLX) closed down 1.44%.

The FTSE fell more than 6% as the full-year profit guidance was lower than expected

NYSE:CRM closed down 6.31% at $216.50. It was down 4.36% in after-hours trading. The company reported fourth-quarter net profit of $267 million, or 28 cents a share, compared with a loss of $248 million a year earlier. Adjusted earnings per share were $1.04, better than expected of 75 cents. Revenue rose to $5.82 billion from $4.85 billion a year ago, exceeding expectations of $5.68 billion.

Safari expects adjusted earnings per share of $3.39 to $3.41 and sales of $25.65 billion to $25.75 billion in 2021, slightly below analysts' expectations. Analysts on average expect adjusted earnings of $3.49 and revenue of $25.42 billion in 2021.

Airbnb surged 13% and Q4 revenue was better than expected.

Airbnb (NASDAQ:ABNB) closed up 13.34% at $206.35. The online accommodation booking platform reported a net loss of $3.89 billion, or $11.24 per share, in the fourth quarter, compared with a loss of $1.34 per share in the same period last year, with analysts expecting a loss of $8.40 per share on average. The huge loss was mainly due to stock compensation related to IPO, which reached $2.9 billion. Revenue fell 22% to $859 million, but exceeded expectations of $739.4 million.

The company said total bookings fell 31 per cent to $5.9 billion in the quarter. Analysts had expected $5.19 billion, down 35 per cent overall from a year earlier. Over the past year, Airbnb's bookings totaled $23.9 billion, compared with analysts' expectations of $23.14 billion.

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Berkshire halved its net profit last year, and Buffett warned of a bleak outlook for the bond market.

According to brokerage China, NYSE:BRKa (NYSE:BRKb) disclosed full-year revenue of $245.51 billion and net profit of $42.521 billion in 2020, compared with a net profit of $81.417 billion for shareholders in the same period the previous year. Berkshire Hathaway's market capitalization grew by only 2.4% in 2020, while the s & p 500 index rose by 18.4%, and Berkshire lost by 16 percentage points.

The top 10 positions of Berkshire Hathaway in the fourth quarter of 2020 are: at the end of the fourth quarter of last year, the top 10 positions were Apple Inc ($120.4 billion), Bank of America Corporation ($31.3 billion), Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) ($21.9 billion), American Express Co ($18.3 billion), Verizon Communications Inc (Verizon Telecom) (NYSE:VZ) (market capitalization $8.6 billion), Moody's Corporation (NYSE:MCO) (market capitalization $7.16 billion), Z. Bancorp (NYSE:USB) (market capitalization $6.9 billion), BYD(HK:1211) (market capitalization $5.897 billion), Chevron Corp (market capitalization $4.096 billion), Charter Communications Inc (NASDAQ:CHTR) (market capitalization $3.45 billion).

Notably, Buffett warned in a letter to shareholders that fixed-income investors "face a bleak future". "bonds are not a good place to go these days," Buffett wrote in his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. "

Johnson & Johnson single dose COVID-19 Vaccine is authorized for Emergency use of FDA

On the 27th local time in the United States, FDA approved the EUA (Emergency use Authorization) license for Johnson & Johnson's (NYSE:JNJ) COVID-19 vaccine. This is the first single-dose COVID-19 vaccine in the United States and the third COVID-19 vaccine approved by FDA, which is suitable for people aged 18 and above.

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(editor: Mo Ning)