peloton fell below its ipo price netflix suffered its steepest drop in a decade and chip stocks continued to struggle add it all up and the nasdaq just closed out its worst week since the beginning of the pandemic at fridays close the nasdaq was down 76 for the week its biggest decline since march 2020 when global markets sank on covid19 concerns its also the fourth straight weekly drop for the techheavy index the longest losing streak since a similar stretch last april and may heading into 2022 the story for tech stocks was outward rotation inflationary pressure was leading the federal reserve to signal that interest rate hikes were coming shares of cloudcomputing companies and other highmultiple stocks that outperformed the market in recent years were plunging as the workfromhome theme fell apart business fundamentals still appeared to be solid though and the economy was on the upswing that confidence waned this week as terrible news in pockets of the technology sector raised concerns with the wave of q4 tech earnings reports set to kick off in the coming days peloton on thursday reported preliminary quarterly results and said the number of connected fitness subscribers will fall short of expectations the company put out its release after cnbc reported that peloton is temporarily halting production of its connected bikes and treadmills and looking for ways to control costs as we discussed last quarter we are taking significant corrective actions to improve our profitability outlook and optimize our costs across the company peloton chief executive officer john foley said in a statement peloton shares plummeted 24 on thursday before a partial rebound on friday left them down 14 for the week the stock closed at 2706 below its 29 ipo price from 2019 peloton is a niche company with a product that saw high demand during the early days of the pandemic when consumers were stuck at home and gyms were closed but what might have been dismissed as a oneoff gained significance after hours on thursday when a much bigger company netflix shocked the market the videostreaming company said it expects to add 25 million subscribers during the first quarter of 2022 far below analysts estimates of 693 million according to streetaccount the stock fell 22 on friday the steepest drop in almost a decade and slid 24 for the week investors followed by selling out of streaming audio service spotify which dropped 11 for the week and gaming company roblox which declined 13 meanwhile amazon had its worst week since 2018 dropping 12 trading apps robinhood and coinbase had a rough week as well falling 14 and 17 respectively amid a market slide in speculative assets including cryptocurrencies tech earnings season gets started in a big way next week with ibm reporting on monday followed by microsoft on tuesday and intel wednesday of the three intel suffered the largest drop this week falling 66 that was part of a broader decline in semiconductor companies as amd qualcomm and nvidia each dropped more than 12 supply chain constraints remain a problem and investors may be expecting some troubling forecasts on device sales as earnings trickle out researcher idc said last month that the pc market will likely slow this year following two years of doubledigit growth in a report on thursday analysts at piper sandler downgraded amd to the equivalent of a hold from buy based in part on the trajectory of computer sales amd is scheduled to report fourthquarter results on feb 1 we do not see the company missing estimates over the next two quarters but ultimately we do see a combination of slower growth and a slowing pc environment burdening the stock piper sandler wrote