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Tesla Falls Over 4% Premarket as Republican Midterm Losses Hit Musk’s $450M Bet

Tesla fell more than 4% and SpaceX dropped over 3% in premarket trading after Republicans lost the midterm elections and Democrats scored a sweeping victory, potentially voiding Elon Musk’s nearly $450 million political wager on the GOP. AMD rose more than 7% after Q3 revenue beat expectations with 45% growth, data center revenue nearly doubled, and Q4 guidance accelerated to a new high.

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The read-through here is political-risk pricing: Tesla and SpaceX are being marked down not on fundamentals but on their CEO's electoral exposure, a reminder that Musk's personal political capital is now a variable in his companies' equity stories. The contrast with AMD's data-center-driven beat sharpens the point — capital is rewarding operating results while penalizing political entanglement. Whether this divergence persists, and whether Musk's spending record becomes a recurring governance talking point for shareholders, is the open question worth tracking.

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