{
  "id": 19109273,
  "title": "Trump's midterm defeat: Europe's biggest stock winners and losers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/trumps-midterm-defeat-europes-biggest-stock-winners-and-losers",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-09T06:45:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Euronews",
    "slug": "euronews",
    "url": "https://www.euronews.com/2026/11/09/trumps-midterm-defeat-europes-biggest-stock-winners-and-losers"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The midterms saw a \"blue tsunami\" of Democrats taking control of both chambers of the US Congress. European investors were watching to see how much room President Trump would have to govern after the results.\n\nAt first glance, the European stock market did not react much to the midterm results. The Stoxx 600, which tracks the largest companies in Europe, only rose 1.8% on Wednesday and then quickly gave back most of the gain. By the end of the week, it was only 0.4% higher than the previous Tuesday.\n\nHowever, beneath the surface, the market saw a significant reshuffling. European banks led the rally, rising 3.2% between Tuesday and Friday, with most of the gains on Wednesday alone. Travel and leisure stocks also performed well, climbing 3.9% as oil prices fell. Utilities and healthcare also had positive results, gaining 2.5% and 2% respectively. On the downside, energy stocks fell 4.2% and technology lost 3.6%.\n\nEurope held up better than Wall Street for a couple of reasons. Its market owns far fewer AI stocks and far more banks. Financial companies make up more than 30% of the Stoxx 600 earnings, but only 10% of euro area economic activity. After the tech sell-off, European stocks have now outperformed US equities this year in local-currency terms.\n\nThe most dramatic tech sell-off of the week came on Thursday, driven by the election results in several US states. Democrats won governors races in Texas, Ohio, and Georgia, which had been courting the AI data-center boom with tax breaks and fast-track permits. Voters in parts of Ohio, Illinois, Maine, and Florida also approved local measures to ban or restrict new data centers. This raised concerns about new regulations, energy consumption, and local resistance, negatively impacting European technology stocks, which fell 3.2% on Thursday alone.\n\nBond yields across Europe fell throughout the week. Germany's 10-year Bund yield dropped from 3.33% to 3.25%, and France's 10-year yield fell from 4.95% to 4.77%. US 10-year Treasury yields also decreased from 4.97% to 4.86%. Lower bond yields suggest greater-than-expected constraints on the war, tariffs, and the AI boom, which could disinflame over the medium term. The AI part matters for borrowing, as big US cloud companies, known as hyperscalers, have become some of the world's largest borrowers and compete with governments for the same investors. A pause in data centers would flip this, reducing AI spending and competition for government funding of their deficits.",
  "summary": "A Democratic ‘blue tsunami’ sparked one of the year’s sharpest rotations in Europe: banks rallied, chips sank on data-centre fears.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}