Did the US stock market lose $2.8 trillion in a single day — the biggest wipeout in history?
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The heatmap is a genuine intraday snapshot of the 5 November 2026 US market rout, and the claim that it produced a record single-day market-cap loss is largely correct: Dow Jones Market Data put the S&P 500 companies' loss at about $2.9 trillion, a record, topping the roughly $2.69 trillion of 16 March 2020, though the $2.8 trillion was an intraday figure and some whole-market estimates are smaller.
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