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Nasdaq fell 0.6%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-08-12 · market close

Nasdaq Composite closed at 26,445.45 on 2026-08-11, fell 0.6% on the session and is +13.8% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

The Nasdaq Composite ended Tuesday's session at 26,445.45, down 0.6% on the day — the steepest fall of the three main US benchmarks, as selling concentrated in the large technology names that dominate its weighting.

Even after that decline the index sat near the top of its one-year band, closing 2.39% below its 52-week high of 27,093.9 and 27.17% above the 52-week low of 20,794.64. It held above both averages traders watch most, the 50-day at 25,924.9 and the 200-day at 24,127.23 — a moving average being the mean close over that many sessions, a rough line between uptrend and downtrend. Year to date it was up 13.78%.

The nearer windows were flatter than that: down 0.52% over the past week, up 2.21% over a month, up only 0.65% over three months. Most of the year's advance was banked earlier.

In the same Tuesday session the weakness was broad but shallow. The S&P 500 fell 0.32% and the Dow 0.34%; the FTSE 100 slipped 0.17% and the CAC 40 0.13%, while the DAX rose 0.26% and the Euro Stoxx 50 0.24%. Asia's Tuesday closes were softer — the Hang Seng lost 1.1% and Shanghai 0.82%, though Taiwan's TAIEX added 0.43% — and India's Sensex and Nifty 50 ended 0.49% and 0.46% lower. Three peers carried Wednesday dates instead, their day finishing before Wall Street's: Japan's Nikkei up 0.12%, Australia's ASX 200 down 0.37%, and South Korea's KOSPI up 2.03%, the largest move listed and one that landed after the Nasdaq's drop rather than alongside it.

Only one headline in the pack was fresh. Goodreturns, reporting live on 11 August, had the Nasdaq shedding roughly 140 points as technology stocks dragged, with the Dow and S&P 500 also lower — a restatement of the move, not a cause. The rest were older or speculative: a TradingKey wrap from four days earlier described the Composite rising 1.3% as Fed rate-hike expectations cooled, memory stocks selling off and SpaceX up 15.83%; pieces from fool.com and The Globe and Mail argued from historical patterns rather than reporting Tuesday. An NBC News headline a fortnight old placed the Nasdaq-100 in correction, which sits oddly beside the Composite's 2.39% gap to its 52-week high — a different index over a different window, worth flagging rather than reconciling.

What the data records is a modest, tech-led down day in an index still above both major moving averages and within a few percent of its 52-week high. What it does not contain is a driver: no data release, earnings number or policy event is attached to Tuesday's 0.6% fall, and the one same-day headline names sector weakness without explaining it.

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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.