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Issue #44 · Friday, August 21, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 15.7 ▼ from 16.0 yesterday | | Worth noting SpaceX (SPCX) moved -4.05% on the day. | | Stocks declined modestly as Treasury yields climbed and debt concerns weighed, while earnings focus shifts to upcoming mega-cap results. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,641.16 -0.87%
-2.02% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,067.17 -1.00%
-2.75% this week | | Dow Jones | 52,759.21 -1.32%
-2.01% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,992.43 -1.34%
-1.98% this week |
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● The Movers Leaders | META Meta | -0.04% | | NVDA Nvidia | -0.33% | | MSFT Microsoft | -0.65% |
| Laggards | SPCX SpaceX | -4.05% | | AMZN Amazon | -2.16% | | AAPL Apple | -1.75% |
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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 (7,532.90) and 200-day (7,091.61) 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) 62 — momentum firm. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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