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Issue #20 · Monday, July 20, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 18.2 ▼ from 18.8 yesterday | | Worth noting The S&P 500 crossed below 7,500 since yesterday. | | Stocks fell modestly with tech leading declines as investors await earnings from major companies this week. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,457.69 -1.01%
-1.55% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 25,520.24 -1.40%
-2.90% this week | | Dow Jones | 52,146.42 -0.77%
-0.93% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,962.22 -0.42%
-0.52% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | AAPL Apple | +0.14% | | ^RUT Russell 2000 | -0.42% | | ^DJI Dow Jones | -0.77% |
| Laggards | SPCX SpaceX | -5.43% | | META Meta | -2.79% | | TSLA Tesla | -2.61% |
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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 Between its 50-day (7,464.88) and 200-day (6,987.23) averages — a trend in transition. 30-day range 7,266.99–7,584.31; currently in the middle third of that range. RSI(14) 59 — momentum firm. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Partner The charts we read every morning TradingView is the charting platform a lot of "The Read" leans on — live charts, screeners and alerts for stocks, indexes and the VIX. New to it? This link puts toward a paid plan. Try TradingView → |
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Markets 101 What's a ticker symbol? A short code identifying a stock — AAPL for Apple, MSFT for Microsoft. Indices use a caret in many systems (the S&P 500 is often shown as ^GSPC). |
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“Markets are a description of today, not a forecast of tomorrow.” |
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