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Nasdaq fell 0.6%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-08-05 · market close

Nasdaq Composite closed at 26,415.30 on 2026-08-05, fell 0.6% on the session and is +13.7% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

The Nasdaq Composite ended the 5 August session lower, slipping 0.64% to close at 26,415.3. The move was small, and the evidence pack for this wrap offers no single event to pin it on -- nothing in the supplied data shows which stocks or sectors did the damage.

The dip barely dented a strong stretch. The index was up 8.07% over the past week, 2.31% over a month and 4.3% over three months, leaving it 13.65% higher for the year to date. It finished 2.5% below its 52-week high of 27,093.9 and 27.03% above its 52-week low of 20,794.64. It also held above both of the trend markers chart-watchers track: the 50-day moving average at 25,948.56 and the 200-day at 24,053.86.

Peer markets in the pack did not all report from the same day, so the comparison needs care. Among those whose latest close was also 5 August, the Dow rose 0.75% while the S&P 500 slipped 0.14%, leaving the Nasdaq Composite the weakest of the three US benchmarks. Europe was mixed and quiet: the FTSE 100 added 0.08% and the CAC 40 0.03%, while the DAX shed 0.29% and the Euro Stoxx 50 0.15%. India was flat to firm, with the Sensex up 0.19% and the Nifty 50 up 0.04%.

Asia's figures are a session older, dated 4 August. At that most recent close the KOSPI led with a 1.62% gain and Australia's ASX 200 rose 1.4%, Shanghai added 0.33% and the Nikkei 0.32%. The TAIEX was fractionally lower, down 0.06%, and the Hang Seng fell 0.6%. Because they are a day behind, those readings describe a different trading day rather than a simultaneous reaction.

The headlines gathered with the data point two ways at once, and most address the narrower Nasdaq 100 or the broad market rather than the Composite. CNBC reported hours before the close that the Nasdaq 100 had logged one of the decade's ten most bullish statistical readings. FXEmpire, a day earlier, framed concerns about artificial-intelligence spending as pressure on technology stocks. The Motley Fool reported that the S&P 500 and the Dow set new highs on 4 August.

So the pack shows a small pullback inside a trend that stays intact on every measure it carries. It does not show a cause: there is no breadth, volume or sector detail in it, and one bullish headline sitting beside one cautious one settles nothing.

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How this article was made: Strota assembled the market data above (the index's price history, same-session peer-market moves and public headlines) and an AI model wrote the narrative strictly from that evidence — it is not permitted to add outside facts or numbers. Every figure comes from the underlying market/public data.