🚨 MARKET: Stock futures slip as investors await US midterm results, with S&P 500 futures down 0.5% and Nasdaq futures down 0.9%.

Stock index futures declined ahead of the US midterm election results, with S&P 500 futures down 0.5% and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.9%. The move reflects event-driven de-risking, as traders reduce exposure ahead of a binary political outcome whose implications for fiscal policy, regulation, and tariffs remain uncertain. The Nasdaq's larger decline points to higher sensitivity among long-duration, high-multiple growth stocks, which are more vulnerable to shifts in expected policy and rate paths than the broader index. Traders should watch the initial congressional and Senate outcomes and early market reaction in Treasury yields and the dollar, since a split result versus a clear sweep would imply different expectations for fiscal spending and corporate tax policy.

The Nasdaq-100 (NDX) is the US large-cap tech benchmark. NDX is more sensitive to rate decisions than SPX because of longer-duration cash flows, and heavily concentrated in Tech/Comms names — mega-cap earnings season dominates price action.

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