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Issue #16 · Tuesday, July 14, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 17.4 ▲ from 17.2 yesterday | | Worth noting SpaceX (SPCX) moved -4.24% on the day. | | S&P 500 and Nasdaq both declined as major bank earnings mixed with a sharp IBM warning weighed on investor sentiment. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,515.34 -0.79%
-0.29% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 25,873.18 -1.55%
-0.95% this week | | Dow Jones | 52,498.64 -0.26%
-1.05% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,953.17 -0.83%
-1.87% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | MSFT Microsoft | +1.53% | | AMZN Amazon | +0.80% | | AAPL Apple | +0.63% |
| Laggards | SPCX SpaceX | -4.24% | | NVDA Nvidia | -3.52% | | TSLA Tesla | -3.19% |
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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 (7,440.71) and 200-day (6,969.43) 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) 54 — momentum roughly neutral. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What are earnings? A company's profits, reported every quarter. "Earnings season" is when most big firms report within a few weeks, and surprises versus expectations often move share prices sharply. |
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“Markets are a description of today, not a forecast of tomorrow.” |
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