{"id":80981,"date":"2026-11-06T04:55:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/global-stocks-plunge-amid-ai-slowdown-fears-after-democrats-midterm-triumph\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T04:55:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:55:37","slug":"global-stocks-plunge-amid-ai-slowdown-fears-after-democrats-midterm-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/global-stocks-plunge-amid-ai-slowdown-fears-after-democrats-midterm-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"Global stocks plunge amid AI slowdown fears after Democrats\u2019 midterm triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asian and European markets follow Wall Street with sharp fall as FTSE down 1.5%<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/nov\/06\/global-stocks-tumble-ai-panic-markets-democrats-midterms-success-jobs-oil-dollar-latest-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>European stock markets have fallen sharply as a rout in US tech stocks spread across the Atlantic, after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-midterm-elections-2026\">Democrats\u2019 midterms victory<\/a> sparked fears of a slowdown in the AI industry.<\/p>\n<p>A sell-off on Wall Street on Thursday was followed by sharp falls in Asian stocks markets on Friday morning. The investor sentiment then reached London, with the FTSE 100 index, which tracks blue-chip shares listed in London, down 1.5%, or 166 points, at the start of trading to 10,615.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/nov\/06\/global-stocks-plunge-amid-ai-slowdown-fears-after-democrats-midterm-triumph\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian and European markets follow Wall Street with sharp fall as FTSE down 1.5% Business live \u2013 latest updates European stock markets have fallen sharply as a rout in US tech stocks spread across the Atlantic, after the Democrats\u2019 midterms victory sparked fears of a slowdown in the AI industry. A sell-off on Wall Street &#8230; <a title=\"Global stocks plunge amid AI slowdown fears after Democrats\u2019 midterm triumph\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/global-stocks-plunge-amid-ai-slowdown-fears-after-democrats-midterm-triumph\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Global stocks plunge amid AI slowdown fears after Democrats\u2019 midterm triumph\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}