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Issue #14 · Thursday, July 9, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 17.1 ▲ from 16.9 yesterday | | Worth noting The S&P 500 crossed below 7,500 since yesterday. | | Markets mixed as earnings season continues with healthcare and consumer weakness offsetting tech gains, amid geopolitical uncertainty. |
| | | | | ● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,482.71 -0.28%
-0.22% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 25,870.65 +0.20%
-1.31% this week | | Dow Jones | 52,348.39 -1.09%
+0.06% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,956.39 -0.88%
-2.25% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
| ● The Movers Leaders | NVDA Nvidia | +3.65% | | AAPL Apple | +0.88% | | ^IXIC Nasdaq Composite | +0.20% |
| Laggards | TSLA Tesla | -2.19% | | META Meta | -2.02% | | MSFT Microsoft | -1.41% |
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The day's best and worst of the tracked indices and mega-caps · day-over-day change. |
| ● The Read S&P 500 — description, not prediction Trading above both its 50-day (7,417.00) and 200-day (6,956.33) averages — the longer-term trend reads as up. 30-day range 7,266.99–7,609.78; currently in the middle third of that range. RSI(14) 48 — momentum roughly neutral. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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| Markets 101 What is the Russell 2000? An index of about 2,000 smaller US companies. Because small-caps are more sensitive to the domestic economy, it's watched as a read on broader business conditions. |
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