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Issue #45 · Monday, August 24, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 16.0 ▲ from 15.1 yesterday | | Worth noting Tesla (TSLA) moved +5.14% on the day. | | Stock markets edged higher overnight as tech shares stabilized, though the Dow continues a two-week pullback amid cautious investor positioning. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,674.37 +0.43%
-1.43% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,180.46 +0.43%
-2.05% this week | | Dow Jones | 53,277.01 +0.98%
-0.85% this week | | Russell 2000 | 3,017.87 +0.85%
-1.65% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | TSLA Tesla | +5.14% | | SPCX SpaceX | +2.22% | | GOOGL Alphabet | +1.22% |
| Laggards | NVDA Nvidia | -0.98% | | AAPL Apple | -0.63% | | AMZN Amazon | -0.57% |
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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 (7,541.05) and 200-day (7,095.72) 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) 57 — momentum firm. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What is an ETF? An exchange-traded fund — a basket of many stocks (or bonds) that trades like a single stock. An S&P 500 ETF lets you own all 500 names in one ticker. |
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