🗞️ Story file #1496
Stock markets decline after midterm elections
Nov 5, 8 PM ET to Nov 6, 5 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean
- 18outlets carried it
- 🫏6 · 4 · 7🐘left · center · right
- 21 hourson the front pages
- 20front pages at once, at its peak
- 21 minof TV captions
- 3radio newscasts
- 46 of 49parts of a saga
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Bloomberg
Forbes
Fortune
Reuters
Fox Business
Just the News
The Epoch Times
Washington Examiner
New York Post
Newsmax
The National Desk
The Washington Sun
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- Nov 5, 8 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
- Nov 6, 1 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Nov 6, 9 AM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
- Nov 6, 5 PM ETpeak: on 20 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 Quoted
- “Such a sad thing to watch!”3
- “You only have yourselves to blame”3
- “crash”1
- “Has Had Enough”1
- “Such A Sad Thing To Watch!”3
- “Dumocrats”1
- “you only have yourselves to blame”4
- “Such a sad thing to watch”4
phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did
📌 Linked by aggregators
2 Google News · Political Wire
aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)
✏️ 6 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Fox Business (2 wordings): “Trump blames Democrats for stock market plunge after sweeping midterm victories” → “'Such a sad thing to watch': President Trump reacts to massive market sell-off”
- Just the News (2 wordings): “Trump touts stock market surge after midterm losses” → “'You only have yourselves to blame': Trump on stock market fall”
- New York Post (2 wordings): “Trump pins US stock market plunge on Democrats wiping out GOP in midterms: ‘Sad thing to watch!’” → “Money shot Trump pins US stock market plunge on Democrats wiping out GOP in midterms: ‘Sad thing to watch!’”
- Newsmax (2 wordings): “Trump Blames Democrats for Stock Market Plunge” → “Trump Blames Dems for Stock Market Plunge”
- The Independent (6 wordings): “Trump (correctly) points finger at Democrats for stock market plunge during blue tsunami: Live updates” → “Wall Street settles after Trump blames post-election stock slump on voters”
- The National Desk (2 wordings): “Trump blames 'Dumocrats' for stock market slide following midterm results” → “Trump says he’s open to working with Democrats, but blames them for market turmoil”
📰 Every outlet's headline 18left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost🕒 Nov 5, 8 PM ET
Trump Blames Dems For Stock Market Drop: ‘Such A Sad Thing To Watch!’
Raw Story🕒 Nov 5, 8 PM ET
Trump rages over election night market plunge: ‘Such a sad thing to watch!’
Axios🕒 Nov 5, 8 PM ET
Trump says voters should blame themselves for stock market rout
Mediaite🕒 Nov 5, 11 PM ET
Trump Blames Voters For Stock Market Rout, Day After Taking Credit For Bounce
NBC News🕒 Nov 6, 4 AM ET
Global market rout deepens after midterms
The Independent🕒 Nov 5, 10 PM ET
Trump (correctly) points finger at Democrats for stock market plunge during blue tsunami: Live updates
Bloomberg🕒 Nov 5, 8 PM ET
Trump Points Finger at Democrats Over Massive Market Losses
Forbes🕒 Nov 5, 8 PM ET
Trump Blames Massive Stock Market Selloff On Democrats’ Midterm Success
Fortune🕒 Nov 4, 8 AM ET
Stock markets celebrate a ‘stunning rebuke’: Trump says he will accept midterm losses—but don’t expect defeat to change him
Reuters🕒 Nov 5, 11 PM ET
Analysts and investors react to AI market rout
Fox Business🕒 Nov 5, 9 PM ET
Trump blames Democrats for stock market plunge after sweeping midterm victories
Just the News🕒 Nov 4, 3 PM ET
Trump touts stock market surge after midterm losses
The Epoch Times🕒 Nov 6, 2 PM ET
Trump Blames Democrats’ Midterm Victory for Stock Market Losses
Washington Examiner🕒 Nov 6, 8 AM ET
Trump tells voters ‘you only have yourselves to blame’ for market ‘crash’
New York Post🕒 Nov 5, 11 PM ET
Trump pins US stock market plunge on Democrats wiping out GOP in midterms: ‘Sad thing to watch!’
Newsmax🕒 Nov 5, 9 PM ET
Trump Blames Democrats for Stock Market Plunge
The National Desk🕒 Nov 5, 9 PM ET
Trump blames 'Dumocrats' for stock market slide following midterm results
The Washington Sun🕒 Nov 5, 9 PM ET
Trump Blames Stock Market Losses on Voters: ‘You Only Have Yourselves to Blame’
📡 Broadcast
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📺 On TV
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📻 On the radio
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🎙️ On the shows
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🕵️ Investigated, joked about
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🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.
🧶 Retelling
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🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
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