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Issue #1 · Monday, June 22, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 17.4 ▲ from 16.4 yesterday | | Worth noting The S&P 500 crossed above 7,500 since yesterday. | | Stocks rose broadly as Fed-linked figures dominate headlines, with tech leading gains amid chip sector strength. |
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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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● The Brief | | Alan Greenspan, Former Fed Chair, Dies at 100 The economist who led the Federal Reserve for 19 years under four presidents passed away. His tenure shaped modern monetary policy and interest-rate decisions that still influence markets today. (CNBC) |
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Markets 101 What is a moving average? The average closing price over a set number of days — the 50-day and 200-day are the common ones. Traders use price versus these lines as a rough trend yardstick, nothing more. |
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“Markets are a description of today, not a forecast of tomorrow.” |
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