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By Zimbo · November 8, 2026

AI cartoon by Zimbo: Satirical cartoon: a worried robot applies a tiny green bandage reading +1.1% to a giant cracked red arrow lying in a crater, beside a sign reading WEEK -3.4%, while a tabby cat watches from the crater rim, on plain white paper.
The Nasdaq bounced 1.1% on Friday — a tiny green bandage on a week that still lost 3.4%.Zimbo for AI News Page

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Wall Street's AI stocks bounced back on Friday, November 6, stopping the worldwide rout: the Nasdaq closed up 1.1% and the S&P 500 rose 0.3% on a jobs report that beat every forecast, with Nvidia climbing roughly 3% after Thursday's 9.3% plunge and Lam Research jumping 8.5% on a 5 billion buyback.

The bounce only clawed back a fraction of the damage — the Nasdaq still lost 3.4% on the week and the S&P 500 fell 2.7%, its worst week since April 2025 — driven by the midterm sweep and investor fear that the AI data-center build-out will slow and never pay for itself.

It was a relief rally, not a reversal: one good Friday against a week that gave back far more than the bounce recovered.

The joke is the bounce-after-the-rout beat: Merv the robot kneels in the crater and sticks a tiny green +1.1% bandage on the giant cracked red arrow, beside a sign reading WEEK -3.4%, while Issue the cat watches from the rim, unimpressed.

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