Fidelity app is DOWN: Customers blocked from trading stocks

Panic hit ordinary American investors this morning as a series of trading apps crashed.

Fidelity had problems after the stock market opened at 9.30am in New York with furious users saying they could not log in.

Millions of Americans have been logging in to their investment or trading accounts this morning as stocks soared to record highs on the back of Donald Trump returning to the White House .

On X, one user posted: 'Can't login to Fidelity,' along with a screen grab of a message that said: 'Sorry, we can't complete this action right now. Please try again later.'

Another wrote at 10.30am: 'Fidelity app is unusable right now. Worse than Coinbase.'

A third tweeted: 'Your mobile app keeps crashing and costing me thousands!!!!!!'

The stock market rally meant big gains for investors of all kinds, including ordinary Americans with 401(k)s. The gains added billions of dollars to the value of US companies and boosted the wealth of anyone with stocks and shares.

There were also reports of problems with UBS and Morgan Stanley.

According to Downdetector - which monitors when websites and apps are down - thousands of customers reported issues logging on this morning.