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Issue #33 · Thursday, August 6, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 16.0 ▲ from 15.8 yesterday | | Worth noting SpaceX (SPCX) moved -13.61% on the day. | | Stock market treading water as tech pressure persists; earnings mixed on consumer and corporate spending shifts. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,723.55 -0.17%
+5.57% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,363.44 -0.83%
+7.86% this week | | Dow Jones | 54,349.12 +0.49%
+5.34% this week | | Russell 2000 | 3,019.19 -0.59%
+3.88% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | NVDA Nvidia | +3.43% | | AAPL Apple | +0.52% | | ^DJI Dow Jones | +0.49% |
| Laggards | SPCX SpaceX | -13.61% | | GOOGL Alphabet | -4.03% | | TSLA Tesla | -1.77% |
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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 (7,485.68) and 200-day (7,039.69) averages — the longer-term trend reads as up. 30-day range 7,316.15–7,736.52; currently in the upper third of that range. RSI(14) 62 — momentum firm. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What is a circuit breaker? An automatic trading halt triggered when the S&P 500 falls a set percentage in a day (7%, 13%, 20%). It pauses trading to let panic cool — a safety valve, not a prediction. |
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“Markets are a description of today, not a forecast of tomorrow.” |
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