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Issue #1 · Thursday, June 18, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 16.4 ▼ from 18.4 yesterday | | Worth noting The S&P 500 crossed above 7,500 since yesterday. | | Stocks rallied on Iran peace deal news, with Nasdaq up nearly two percent as investors assessed geopolitical risk reduction and its market implications. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,500.58 +1.08%
+1.44% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,517.93 +1.91%
+2.74% this week | | Dow Jones | 51,564.70 +0.14%
+1.41% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,979.77 +2.12%
+2.01% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | NVDA Nvidia | +2.95% | | AMZN Amazon | +2.90% | | ^RUT Russell 2000 | +2.12% |
| Laggards | SPCX SpaceX | -3.56% | | MSFT Microsoft | +0.13% | | ^DJI Dow Jones | +0.14% |
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The day's best and worst of the tracked indices and mega-caps · day-over-day change. |
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● The Read S&P 500 — description, not prediction Trading above both its 50-day (7,315.63) and 200-day (6,902.63) averages — the longer-term trend reads as up. 30-day range 7,266.99–7,609.78; currently in the upper third of that range. RSI(14) 46 — momentum roughly neutral. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What is a stock split? Dividing each share into more shares at a proportionally lower price — a 4-for-1 split turns one $400 share into four $100 shares. Total value is unchanged; it just lowers the sticker price. |
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