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Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (SMT): news on Saturday 31 October 2026
News from the 24 hours to Saturday morning, 31 October 2026.
Tone of the day
What the score means. Each score rates how good or bad the news was for the company, from −10 (clearly bad) to +10 (clearly good). 0 is neutral, and anything beyond ±6 is strong and rare. It rates the coverage, not the share price.
Why it scored this way
The only relevant coverage says Scottish Mortgage shares slid alongside a peer as a tech rout deepened in the US and Asia. The tone is negative because of the share price fall.
What drove it
- tech sell-off
- share price fall
Around this day
| Day | Tone | Headlines |
|---|---|---|
| Sun 25 Oct | −1.3 | 1 |
| Mon 26 Oct | −3.0 | 1 |
| Thu 29 Oct | −3.3 | 2 |
| Fri 30 Oct | +2.0 | 1 |
| Sat 31 Oct | −9.2 | 1 |
1 story · 1 headline · strongest first
Investment trusts on 31 OctoberFTSE 100 that day| Tone | What the article reported, and why it scored that way | |
|---|---|---|
| Scottish Mortgage slides in tech sell-off −9.21 headline today · The trust fell as US and Asian tech sold off. | ||
| −9.2 | Trust's shares fell as technology stocks sold off in US and Asia. | |
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