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Election night 'blue wave' escalates: Democrats essentially lock the Senate, futures deepen losses
What happened
Midterm results swung sharply toward Democrats as counting progressed Tuesday night. Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff won re-election in Georgia, Democrats flipped North Carolina's 11th House district, and Polymarket traders priced a 98% chance Democrats win the Senate. U.S. equity futures sold off: by 9:35 p.m. ET, Nasdaq-100 futures were down about 1.8-1.9%, S&P 500 futures down roughly 1%, and Dow futures down 0.3-0.6%. The 10-year Treasury yield fell to around 4.9% and the dollar weakened to one-month lows.
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- Broad U.S. equities (SPY/QQQ) via futures selloff; tech/AI stocks (Nvidia, Microsoft, CoreWeave, Tesla) leading declines as the midterm outcome matters especially for AI policy and fiscal negotiations; hospitals (Tenet Healthcare) and crypto names flagged as election-sensitive
- Asian equity indexes (Nikkei, Kospi) on the reaction.
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