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Issue #34 · Friday, August 7, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 15.2 ▲ from 15.1 yesterday | | Worth noting SpaceX (SPCX) moved +6.14% on the day. | | S&P 500 and Nasdaq edged lower in cautious trading ahead of Friday's jobs report, which will shape Fed rate-cut expectations. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,709.96 -0.18%
+3.66% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,348.35 -0.06%
+4.88% this week | | Dow Jones | 53,885.10 -0.85%
+3.21% this week | | Russell 2000 | 3,001.55 -0.58%
+1.88% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | SPCX SpaceX | +6.14% | | MSFT Microsoft | +2.54% | | AAPL Apple | +0.45% |
| Laggards | GOOGL Alphabet | -1.29% | | ^DJI Dow Jones | -0.85% | | TSLA Tesla | -0.63% |
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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 (7,489.49) and 200-day (7,044.92) 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) 67 — momentum firm. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What are pre-market and after-hours? Trading sessions outside the main 9:30–4:00 window. Prices can move on overnight news, but volume is thin, so those moves sometimes don't hold once the regular session opens. |
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