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Issue #42 · Wednesday, August 19, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 15.8 ▼ from 15.8 yesterday | | Worth noting Meta (META) moved -4.45% on the day. | | Stocks slipped amid bond volatility and geopolitical tensions, while healthcare and retail earnings offered mixed signals for market direction. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,691.76 -0.69%
-0.47% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,289.71 -1.33%
-0.59% this week | | Dow Jones | 53,343.40 -0.22%
-0.83% this week | | Russell 2000 | 3,017.89 -1.30%
-0.30% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | AAPL Apple | +1.45% | | MSFT Microsoft | +0.27% | | GOOGL Alphabet | +0.06% |
| Laggards | META Meta | -4.45% | | NVDA Nvidia | -2.34% | | SPCX SpaceX | -1.98% |
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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 (7,521.76) and 200-day (7,083.18) 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) 77 — traditionally described as overbought. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What is a P/E ratio? Price divided by earnings per share — how many dollars you pay for each dollar of annual profit. A high P/E means investors expect growth; it says nothing certain about the future. |
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“Markets are a description of today, not a forecast of tomorrow.” |
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