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In US stock trading on November 5, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite plunged 5.5%, hitting its lowest level in six months. The Dow Jones Industrial Average also fell more than 1,800 points (3%), wiping out the previous day’s gains. The sell-off is attributed to Democratic gains in the US midterm elections, which fueled worries about tighter AI regulation for data centers, triggering a broad collapse in AI-related stocks. Reactions on 5ch were split, ranging from posts expressing relief at not owning stocks to debates over just how much the crash would actually affect ordinary people’s lives.
[New York — Yoshikazu Imahori] In US stock trading on the 5th, the Nasdaq Composite, which is heavily weighted toward tech stocks, plunged 5.5% to its lowest level in six months. Concerns are mounting that the Democratic Party’s gains in the midterm elections will lead to tighter regulation of data centers. AI-related stocks have collapsed across the board, and worries about a global stock slump are spreading.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average also fell more than 1,800 points (3%), erasing the previous day’s sharp gains. The S&P 500, made up of a broad range of major stocks (continues in the paid edition — 1,665 characters remaining)
Nikkei November 6, 2026 6:07
Source: nikkei.com / Original article here
What people said
Cash loses value to inflation, you know
Maybe Re: #8 is just sitting on a pile of the element Au (gold)
That's just being poor, lol
Wonder what I'll buy this time
I'm buying a Nasdaq ETF
Not yet
It's still a falling knife
Why not grow sweet potatoes instead?
No reason to put money into crypto when it could just get hacked
It's just fate
Probably not gonna make it
For the sake of reducing inequality, it should crash even more.
If nothing's actually done to fix inequality, a stock crash just makes rich people stop spending, and ordinary people end up suffering from the resulting downturn too
Oh really
What happens when the economy gets worse?
Does that mean fewer jobs?
Either way it has nothing to do with domestic demand
These people just save or invest the money anyway
Jobs decrease
Meaning some people get laid off
A US recession is pretty much a sure thing now
Japan probably won't get hit that hard
Well, it's deflationary globally anyway
Europe has high labor costs too
so they'll probably get dragged down as well
Pension funds won't be able to invest properly either
How much will it drop by?
It's meaningless unless it's cut in half
Then just ignore the inequality issue
Since in practice they're living the same way as us ordinary folks anyway
No, it's the government's job to make these people cough it up
If they dodge taxes and try to run, we need to squeeze even more out of them
There's no point collecting money that isn't even being used
You can print as much currency as you want anyway, so just print it and hand it out
And doing exactly that is what created the world we're in now, including this crash
Uh… nah, never mind
If it got cut in half that'd be a massive event
But would you be one of the half left standing?
For Americans, this is basically like watching their own pension evaporate though
Who cares about that
Is it getting cut in half or not?
Re: #155
This is Japan we're talking about
Did you think it was a savings account?
You brought this on yourself
So what happens there?
They'll go bust and get bought up for next to nothing
Same thing happened in the IT revolution — the companies that laid the fiber-optic cable went bankrupt and were bought for a song
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Behind the Democratic Party’s gains in the US midterm elections lies criticism of the environmental and infrastructure burden created by data centers’ power use and waste heat, and expectations of tighter regulation on AI-related companies are seen as the direct trigger for this stock slide. Since AI stocks have driven much of the recent US stock rally, a pullback fueled by regulatory concerns tends to be especially large. The thread was split over the question of ‘how much a stock drop actually affects ordinary people’s lives’ — some argued that people without stock holdings are unaffected, while others countered that the impact spreads indirectly through pension funds and employment. One point often overlooked: in the US, many ordinary workers indirectly have money in the stock market through retirement plans like 401(k)s, so the assumption that ‘only the wealthy own stocks’ isn’t necessarily accurate.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (News Express+) thread “[Stocks] US Nasdaq Plunges 5%, NY Dow Down 1,800 Points — AI Stocks Collapse Across the Board.”
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