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Weekly Market Commentary: Large Cap Indexes Fall for Fourth Consecutive Week
11/09/26
Sunflower Bank Weekly Market Commentary: November 9, 2026
Each week, our Investment Committee analyzes the U.S. stock market and bond market activity and news of the previous week, summarizing their findings into a weekly market update report. The key points of this week's commentary, "Large Cap Indexes Fall for Fourth Consecutive Week," include:
- Large cap equity indexes fell for the fourth consecutive week and the seventh time in nine weeks as volatility in the AI trade continued. The S&P 500 fell -2.7%, the Nasdaq 100 declined -4.9%, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index dropped -12%.
- Thursday was the worst day for the S&P 500 since Liberation Day back in April 2025. The S&P 500 fell -4.4% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 declined -5.5%. Risk-off sentiment was stoked by Democrats in Congress calling for reduced investment in data centers, backed by broad success in ballot measures designed to restrict or deny development.
- Long-term treasury yields declined for the fifth consecutive week as investors traded risk assets for safer investments. Interest rate futures market pricing implies an 80% chance of another 25-basis point hike in December, however rate hike expectations have fallen alongside the turmoil in the equity market. At the end of September, traders had expected the overnight lending rate to end the year above 4.25%, meaning two more 25-basis point hikes were expected from today’s level.
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