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Issue #22 · Wednesday, July 22, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 17.5 ▲ from 17.0 yesterday | | Worth noting The S&P 500 crossed above 7,500 since yesterday. | | Stocks gained on modest optimism as oil surged on Iran tensions, while bond markets signal shifting rate expectations ahead of economic data. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,509.20 +0.89%
-0.46% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 25,837.21 +1.29%
-1.03% this week | | Dow Jones | 52,224.64 +0.74%
-0.54% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,987.40 +1.53%
+0.76% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | SPCX SpaceX | +3.08% | | TSLA Tesla | +2.53% | | NVDA Nvidia | +1.97% |
| Laggards | GOOGL Alphabet | -1.38% | | MSFT Microsoft | -1.13% | | AMZN Amazon | -0.98% |
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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 (7,469.88) and 200-day (6,994.99) averages — the longer-term trend reads as up. 30-day range 7,266.99–7,575.39; currently in the upper third of that range. RSI(14) 51 — momentum roughly neutral. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What is the bid-ask spread? The gap between the highest price buyers offer (bid) and the lowest sellers accept (ask). Heavily traded stocks have tiny spreads; thin ones have wide, costlier spreads. |
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“Markets are a description of today, not a forecast of tomorrow.” |
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