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Issue #23 · Thursday, July 23, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 17.7 ▲ from 16.6 yesterday | | Worth noting The S&P 500 crossed below 7,500 since yesterday. | | Stocks edged lower as geopolitical tensions and earnings pressures offset gains. Energy and transportation sectors face headwinds. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,498.96 -0.14%
-0.97% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 25,690.90 -0.57%
-2.20% this week | | Dow Jones | 52,218.58 -0.01%
-0.84% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,959.94 -0.92%
-0.55% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | NVDA Nvidia | +2.30% | | ^DJI Dow Jones | -0.01% | | ^GSPC S&P 500 | -0.14% |
| Laggards | SPCX SpaceX | -6.70% | | META Meta | -2.58% | | MSFT Microsoft | -1.86% |
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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 (7,471.88) and 200-day (6,998.91) 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) 52 — momentum roughly neutral. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What is short selling? Borrowing shares to sell now, hoping to rebuy them cheaper later and pocket the difference. Losses are theoretically unlimited because a stock can keep rising. |
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“Markets are a description of today, not a forecast of tomorrow.” |
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