If you thought the coronavirus crisis on Wall Street couldn't get any worse after yesterday -- surprise! -- it just did. Markets that were merely shaky earlier in the day ended in a rout in the closing minutes of trading. When the closing bells rang, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 were both down 4.4%, and the Nasdaq had fallen 4.6%.
In percentage terms, this was the eighth biggest drop in the Dow in history. By "points" lost, however, it was Wall Street's worst day ever.
And yet, even on this arguably worst day in recorded Dow history, three tech stocks managed to buck the tide. As stocks fell left and right around them, shares of fintech stock Square (NYSE: SQ) closed the day up 3.6%; remote videoconferencer Zoom Video (NASDAQ: ZM) closed up 6.2%; and online freelance work-finder Upwork (NASDAQ: UPWK) closed up 7.3%.