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Defensive sectors did better
Our defensive group—healthcare, utilities, real estate and basic household goods—did better over the last 5 trading days. It is not risk-free.
That price move is about a $1.65 gain for every $100 of starting share value.
$766.81 daily close · 2026-11-04Headlines are timed against the completed session close. Related reporting provides context without establishing why prices moved.
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12 source-linked storiesTesla made the Roadster fly. Expert says its $25K EV mattered more
Tesla made its Roadster fly. But one longtime EV journalist says the car Tesla never built could have mattered much more.
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Why SpaceX Stock Is Down Today
SpaceX stock is falling after Elon Musk's heavy political spending failed to stop a Democratic sweep. A tougher Congress could complicate both a Tesla merger and the company's AI push.
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Musk Says Data Centers in Space “Looking Pretty Appealing Right Now” as SpaceX Sinks on Blue Wave
Key TakeawaysSpaceX shares fell 2% today, along with Tesla, after Democrats swept the midterms and Texas elected a governor who campaigned on halting new data center construction. Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire’s bullish SpaceX model gets most of its 2028 revenue from data centers on the ground and allows for only about a 20% political slowdown, and voters just went after that assumption.
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The Mag 7 Just Got a $600B Blue-Wave Surprise
Nvidia, Apple, Meta Platforms, Amazon.com, Tesla, Alphabet, and Microsoft were on track for their tenth largest combined one-day valuation gain ever.
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Tesla Wants to Build 20,000 Optimus Robots a Week. Here's the Supplier That Gets Paid for Every Single One -- and It's Not Nvidia.
Texas Instruments supplies many chips for Tesla's humanoid robots.
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Lucid Jumps 12%, Rivian Climbs 6% as Post-Election Rally Lifts EV Stocks; Tesla Slides 3%
Post-election risk appetite sent smaller EV names surging while the sector's biggest player slid, raising a pointed question about whether the political shake-up helps or hurts the companies betting billions on America's EV future.
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Was Elon Musk the Midterms’ Biggest Loser? What It Means for Tesla and SpaceX Investors
Tesla and SpaceX were down while the rest of the market was up.
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Nvidia And Tesla Left Behind, As Rest Of Mag7 Rally On Dem’s Big Night
Democrats flipped Congress and the Magnificent Seven fractured, with five megacaps surging while two of the group's biggest names moved in the opposite direction. The split points to a rotation that could reshape which companies lead the market through year-end.
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Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX Stocks Fall After Democrats Sweep Elections, Senator Warns of ‘Subpoenas’
As Democrats swept the 2026 midterm elections on Tuesday, November 3, shares of Elon Musk‘s companies SpaceX and Tesla tumbled the following morning. The New York Times reported on Wednesday, November 4, that when markets opened, Tesla’s stock fell more than 5 percent, and SpaceX fell more than 7 percent before recovering some of those […]
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Morgan Stanley Calls Tesla the “Very Obvious Player” as Data Centers Outbuy the Grid on Batteries
Key TakeawaysMorgan Stanley expects data centers to add more battery storage than the grid in 2030, and it called Tesla the “very obvious player” in that market. Tesla’s energy business is a real AI infrastructure play, with fatter margins than its cars.
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Tesla and SpaceX Stocks Fall as Investors Worry About Elon Musk’s Political Risk
Tesla and SpaceX stocks fall as Wall Street rallies after Democrats sweep the US midterms and flip Texas. See why.
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The Nasdaq-100 Is Outperforming Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta Platforms, Alphabet, and Tesla This Year. Here's My Favorite Low-Cost ETF to Buy the Dip.
Many megacap growth stocks are underperforming the major indexes this year.
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