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Nasdaq fell 0.8%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-08-06 · market close

Nasdaq Composite closed at 26,363.44 on 2026-08-05, fell 0.8% on the session and is +13.4% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

The Nasdaq Composite closed its 5 August session at 26,363.44, down 0.83%, the weakest of the three big American benchmarks that day. The S&P 500 gave up only 0.17%, and the Dow finished 0.49% higher. That split, blue-chip average up while the tech-heavy index fell, is the clearest thing the day's numbers say about where the selling sat.

The drop barely dented the longer picture. At the close the index sat 2.7% below its 52-week high of 27,093.9 and 26.78% above its 52-week low of 20,794.64, and it stayed above both its 50-day moving average of 25,947.52 and its 200-day average of 24,053.6, rolling averages of recent closes used as rough trend markers. For the year to date it was up 13.43%.

The horizon returns disagree: the index was up 7.86% over the past week but only 2.11% over the past month and 4.1% over three months. A one-week gain larger than either of those means the weeks before it were flat or worse, so the slip came off a level reached only days earlier.

The peer list is not one shared session, and the pack flags that. The three US readings are dated 5 August; every non-US market in the list is dated 6 August, a session later, making those the following day's trade, not a same-day reaction to Wall Street. On that later date Europe was firmer, the CAC 40 up 0.69% and the DAX up 0.27%. Asia split, in one case sharply: the KOSPI fell 4.58% and the Hang Seng 1.49%, while Shanghai rose 0.57% and India's Sensex 0.48%.

The headlines point in different directions rather than at one cause. A Benzinga report filed shortly before the pack was assembled described Dow futures gaining while the Nasdaq 100, a narrower index of 100 companies rather than the Composite, slipped as Hormuz deal talks progressed. A fool.com item dated 4 August reported the S&P 500 and the Dow setting new highs on easing geopolitical tension, even as the Composite sat 2.7% under its own high. CNBC and Business Insider ran bullish framings of recent Nasdaq statistics; an FXEmpire headline framed AI spending concerns as pressure on technology stocks. None of that is confirmed here.

The pack also disagrees with itself on Korea: a TradingKey headline from a day earlier reported the KOSPI closing higher by nearly 4%, while the peer table's latest KOSPI reading is the 4.58% fall. Both can hold for different sessions; nothing here settles which. With no volume, breadth or sector detail either, the data shows no single obvious catalyst for the decline. What it establishes is narrow: the loss was tech-shaped, and it left the index above both major moving averages and 2.7% short of its 52-week high.

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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.