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the company that owns Facebook Instagram and what's app saw its stock

plunge after hours today shares in meta dropped after unexpectedly heavy

spending on its metaverse project led to a rare decline in its fourth quarter

profit

that a shares fell twenty two point six percent

to two hundred and forty nine dollars and ninety cents in after hours

trading

if the drop holds until the market opens again on thursday

the company's market capitalization its overall value

is on track to fall by nearly

two hundred billion dollars

well that's a story of some yesterday from john roperts if it holds it did hold

met a stock plummeted more than twenty three percent in trading thursday

today dropping to about two hundred forty seven dollars per share

and it did wipe out two hundred billion dollars of its market value that's a lot

whoo things go up and down

but a two hundred billion dollar drop is a lot and what's driving it is um

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