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Equities surged Wednesday as Wall Street embraced the results of Tuesday's midterm elections. The S&P five hundred closed up one point five eight percent, the Dow added three percent, and the Nasdaq gained just under one percent. Divided government expectations appear to be driving the optimism, with investors betting gridlock limits fiscal risk.
That blue wave is now being measured in historic terms. Democrats have flipped seven Senate seats, nearly thirty House districts, five governorships, and up to twelve state legislative chambers. It marks one of the most decisive midterm rebukes in modern memory, and Wall Street is already recalibrating its policy assumptions heading into the back half of the decade.
Meanwhile, Palantir remains a valuation puzzle that Wall Street simply cannot solve. The company's income has nearly quadrupled, yet analyst price targets range from eighty dollars to two hundred sixty-five dollars a share — a spread that tells you less about the company and more about the difficulty of pricing AI-driven revenue in a market still searching for the right framework.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
