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Issue #9 · Wednesday, July 1, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 16.7 ▲ from 16.5 yesterday | | Worth noting SpaceX (SPCX) moved +4.06% on the day. | | Stocks opened higher as Nike's earnings beat and semiconductor sector strength offset caution about international markets abroad. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,499.36 +0.79%
+1.82% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,213.72 +1.52%
+2.45% this week | | Dow Jones | 52,319.20 +0.26%
+1.26% this week | | Russell 2000 | 3,024.37 +0.46%
+1.64% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | SPCX SpaceX | +4.06% | | AAPL Apple | +2.70% | | NVDA Nvidia | +2.63% |
| Laggards | AMZN Amazon | -0.75% | | META Meta | +0.12% | | ^DJI Dow Jones | +0.26% |
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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 (7,378.88) and 200-day (6,934.07) 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) 56 — momentum firm. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What are pre-market and after-hours? Trading sessions outside the main 9:30–4:00 window. Prices can move on overnight news, but volume is thin, so those moves sometimes don't hold once the regular session opens. |
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“Markets are a description of today, not a forecast of tomorrow.” |
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