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Nasdaq Falls 5.3% Into Correction Territory as Chip Stocks Lead a Broad Selloff
Every major U.S. index is down sharply late Thursday morning, one day after the Dow posted its best day since April 2025. The selling is concentrated in chips and AI infrastructure, and it has carried the Nasdaq more than 11% below its October record close.
Nov 5, 2026 · 3 min read
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Earnings
Earnings Today: Airbnb and Cloudflare Report After the Close on a 642-Company Day
Nov 5, 2026
SpaceX
Apollo and Goldman Shop $40 Billion of SpaceX Chip Debt as AI Stocks Slide
Nov 5, 2026
Earnings
Airbnb Revenue Jumps 19% to $4.87B; Cloudflare Sales Surge 39% to $782M
Nov 5, 2026
Earnings
Qualcomm Posts $10.44B Revenue as Auto Chips Jump 89%; Arm Sales Rise 27%
Nov 4, 2026
JOLTS
Job Openings Jump to 7.5 Million in September as Quits Surge to 3.4 Million
Nov 3, 2026
Earnings
Earnings Today: AMD, Super Micro and Arista Report After the Close on Election Day
Nov 3, 2026
Politics
2026 Midterm Elections Explained: 435 House Seats, 35 Senate Seats and Control of Congress at Stake
Markets
Marvell to Buy Lumentum in $115B All-Stock Deal to Lead AI Connectivity
Earnings
Apple Posts Record $114.5B Quarter as Tariff Refunds Add $0.05 to EPS
Markets
Alphabet Stock Falls 12.6% in Worst Day Ever After Earnings Miss and Negative Cash Flow
Markets
Rates
Nov 5| Fed Target | 3.75–4.00% | |
|---|---|---|
| Fed Funds Eff. | 3.88% | |
| SOFR | 3.92% |
Currencies
Nov 6| EUR/USD | 1.1165 | ▼ 0.53% |
|---|---|---|
| GBP/USD | 1.3385 | ▼ 0.55% |
| USD/JPY | 158.33 | ▼ 0.08% |
| USD/CNY | 6.6713 | ▲ 0.04% |
| USD/INR | 93.92 | ▼ 0.59% |
| USD/CAD | 1.4066 | ▲ 0.72% |
| USD/CHF | 0.8189 | ▲ 0.12% |
Rates: U.S. Treasury par yields and New York Fed reference rates, latest published. Currencies: European Central Bank reference rates. Changes are against the prior reading; rates in basis points.
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With Immense Power Comes the Ledger: What the New Democratic Congress Promised, What Flipped-State Voters Need, and the Gap Between Them
Democrats won both chambers on affordability and healthcare. Their stated agenda matches the flipped farmer vote on ACA premiums, Medicaid and tariffs in intent — and has no named programme yet for fertilizer, diesel or farm credit. And the most urgent farm deadline is decided by the outgoing Congress, before the new gavels are seated on January 3.
Nov 5, 2026 · Kanchan Sharma
Midterms 2026
Iowa Farm Country Decided Control: Turek Beats Hinson, and the Senate Flipped With the Soy Market
An open seat, a harvest run on expensive diesel, a soybean market hit by tariffs — and the race AP called at 11:35 p.m. that gave Democrats the Senate. The numbers behind the flip, and what the new Agriculture Committees can and cannot deliver from January 3.
Midterms 2026
Kansas: The Farmer Flip — Hamilton Ends a 94-Year Drought on a $737,375 Farm Ledger
The Preisser family of Sylvia, Kansas itemised it on paper for CBS News: $514,625 more for fertilizer, $187,000 more for diesel, and $325,000 less in revenue. Fertilizer up 15.3 percent nationally, no Farm Bill after a two-year wait, and a first-ever Democratic vote from the man who started the farm. Kansas also kept the counterpoint in the same story — not every farmer under the same pressure flipped.
Midterms 2026
Maine: Heating Oil Above $6, a Canada Tariff Waiver on October 23, and the Seat Susan Collins Still Lost
Troy Jackson, a fifth-generation logger, ousted a five-term senator in a state where 54% of homes heat with oil. The waiver exempted nine farm categories four days before the election — and the same order added other tariffs. What the record shows, and what it does not.
Midterms 2026
North Carolina: Roy Cooper Wins the Senate Seat Democrats Last Won in 2008, on One Promise — Make Stuff Cost Less
The first flip of election night, called at 8:23 p.m. A former governor who expanded Medicaid to more than 700,000 people beat a former party chairman who had never held office, by roughly twenty points. The money, the healthcare fight, and the margin, in numbers.