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Issue #40 · Monday, August 17, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Calm · 14.9 ▲ from 14.3 yesterday | | Stocks edged lower in calm trading as tech giants compete in AI while a crypto venture moves toward banking approval. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,785.76 -0.17%
+0.36% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,729.16 -0.28%
+0.14% this week | | Dow Jones | 53,732.41 -0.20%
-0.56% this week | | Russell 2000 | 3,068.42 +0.51%
+1.12% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | TSLA Tesla | +0.68% | | ^RUT Russell 2000 | +0.51% | | AAPL Apple | +0.22% |
| Laggards | AMZN Amazon | -0.94% | | SPCX SpaceX | -0.91% | | META Meta | -0.86% |
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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 (7,512.39) and 200-day (7,074.90) averages — the longer-term trend reads as up. 30-day range 7,316.15–7,798.99; currently in the upper third of that range. RSI(14) 75 — traditionally described as overbought. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What is market capitalization? A company's total stock-market value: share price times the number of shares. A "mega-cap" like Microsoft is worth trillions; a "small-cap" might be worth under a couple of billion. |
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“Markets are a description of today, not a forecast of tomorrow.” |
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